July 26, 2010
Nonfiction
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice De Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll by Paul Spicer (St. Martin’s, 8-10)
The Visiting Suit: Stories from My Prison Life by Xiaoda Xiao (Two Dollar Radio, 11-10)
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken (Penguin, 10-10)
River House: A Memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence (Tin House, 10-10)
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter by Randy L. Schmidt (Chicago Review, 7-10)
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America by Geoffrey O’Brien (Holt, 8-10)
Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America by Nick Rosen (Penguin, 8-10)
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg (Penguin, 8-10)
Composed: A Memoir by Rosanne Cash (Viking, 8-10)
Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age by Blair Kamin (U of Chicago, 10-10)
The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World by Richard Poplak (Soft Skull, 9-10)
Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir by Sonya Huber (U of Nebraska, 10-10)
Seven Shots: An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and its Aftermath by Jennifer C. Hunt (U of Chicago, 10-10)
Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike by Charlotte Gray (Counterpoint, 10-10)
Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds (Soft Skull, 9-10)
Amexica: War along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy (FSG, 11-10)
Down and Derby: The Insider’s Guide to Roller Derby by Jennifer “Kasey Bomber” Barbee and Alex “Axles of Evil” Cohen (Soft Skull, 8-10)
Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan by Ted Berrigan (Coffee House, 10-10)
Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations by Mark Slouka (Graywolf, 11-10)
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody (Counterpoint, 10-10)
Bullfighting: A Troubled History by Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier (Reaktion, 2010)
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson (Crown, 8-10)
Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden by Charles Goodrich (Silverfish Review, 4-10)
Returning to Iran by Sima Nahan (Urtext, 2010)
The Blue Flower of Forgetfulness by Cyrus Samii (Urtext, 2010)
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley (FSG, 11-10)
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired “Chicago” by Douglas Perry (Viking, 8-10)
My Life as a Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrere (Metropolitan, 8-10)
OK: The Improbable History of America’s Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf (Oxford U, 11-10)
Architecture of a Novel: A Writer’s Handbook by Jane Vandenburgh (Counterpoint, 8-10)
The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron, or, My Life in the Age of Muscle by Paul Solotaroff (Little, Brown, 8-10)
White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American Life by Daiva Markelis (U of Chicago, 10-10)
Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps edited by John McIntyre (Counterpoint, 9-10)
Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour by Rachel Shurket (Harper Perennial, 8-10)
“I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, The Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Harvard, 1-11)
My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young by Stephanie Dolgoff (Ballantine, 9-10)
Posted by Jessa Crispin at July 26, 2010 10:57 AM