Book Digest: June 25, 2007
Right Livelihoods; The Mirror and The Mask; Pilgrims Upon the Earth; Origin; We’re All Journalists Now; Voices of a People’s History of the United States; Killing Che; Inland; The Soul of Baseball
Robert Birnbaum
Book Digest: June 18, 2007
A Young People’s History of the United States Vols. I and II; Chasing the Rising Sun; The Opposite House; The Uncertain Hour; Pulp Writer; Nazi Germany and the Jews (1939-1945), Vol. II; The Interloper; The Summer Shack Cookbook; Four Novels of the 1960s; Cataloochee; God Is Dead; Her Way; 1967
Book Digest: June 4, 2007
Divisadero; Collected Plays and Writings on Theater; 1941; The Great Far Away; Einstein, A Biography; Throws Like a Girl; The Invisible Cure; The Savage Garden; The Archivist’s Story; Are We Rome?; Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell
Book Digest: May 21, 2007
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish; American Youth; Later, at the Bar; Black Panther; Reclaiming History; The Pesthouse; Tattoo Art & Design; Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream; Thick as Thieves
Book Digest: May 14, 2007
Edward Hopper; Dreaming Baseball; Zig Zag; Polish Writers on Writing; Irish Writers on Writing; Mexican Writers on Writing; Ploughshares; The Ministry of Special Cases; Generation Loss; The Perfect Summer; Flower Children; Up in Honey’s Room; All That Glittered
Book Digest: May 7, 2007
A Tranquil Star; I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead; McSweeney’s Issue 23; God Is Not Great; A Handbook to Luck; A Lie About My Father; Fellow Travelers; Alice Waters and Chez Panisse; The Lucifer Effect; The Rose Café; Hubbub
Colum McCann
Transplanted Irishman Colum McCann has just finished a ramble with Gypsies in his newest novel, Zoli. A conversation about the Romany people, the perils of writing novels tied to history, and more.
Book Digest: April 23, 2007
Out Stealing Horses; Selected Poems; Biography: A Brief History; How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors; Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price; The Unknown Terrorist; Shakespeare’s Kitchen; Presence; Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America
Book Digest: April 16, 2007
Ghettonation; The Lisbon Crossing; The Custodian of Paradise; Lies; Savage Kingdom; So Many Ways to Begin; The Big Girls; Dry Manhattan; A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both; The Language of Elk; Endless Things
Book Digest: April 9, 2007
The N Word; Buda’s Wagon; Without Title; Chemistry and Other Stories; The Savage Detectives; The Testament of Gideon Mack; Writing Toward Hope; Space Walk; Family Romance; To the Break of Dawn; The First Man-Made Man; Jamestown; Cindy Sherman