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| | | January 22, 2018 |  Fire & Fury & Ferrante Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert You’d have to be hibernating to miss the stir created by Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside Trump’s White House, No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction and combined nonfiction best sellers lists, having sold nearly 200,000 copies through February 14. Here’s more news: On February 28, Vintage Español will publish a Spanish-language edition, Fuego y Furia: Dentro de la Casa Blanca de Trump (384p. pap. ISBN 9780525564287. $13.95; ebk. ISBN 9780525564294). Meanwhile, word has come that elusive and illustrious Italian author Elena Ferrante will be writing a weekly column for the Guardian’s Weekend magazine, her first ever regular newspaper column. Not surprisingly, the essays will focus on the personal. |
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|  Three Novels & a Memoir | Barbara’s Picks Beatriz Williams offers a class-clash dazzler with The Summer Wives, Ottessa Moshfegh looks for another winner with My Year of Rest and Relaxation and its world-weary heroine, Andrea Kleine follows her debut, Calf, with Eden, a tale of two sisters once abducted, and Jean Guerrero’s Crux, about her Mexican immigrant father, stands out in a month full of strong memoirs. |
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| |  Bright Days, Dark Thrills | Fiction Previews Thrillers are never lighthearted, but many of this month’s are horror-edged indeed, with a murder victim inexplicably found beneath a lagoon's ice, a typewriter inexplicably typing away, a bereaved new neighbor seen to be the cause of several children disappearing, and death-by-starvation rearing its head. Look for teamwork from mother-and-son Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen, father-and-son Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman, and husband-and-wife Nicci French (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French). |
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|  Literary Glitter | Fiction Previews From PEN/Faulkner Award winner Kate Christensen’s The Last Cruise, a nostalgic but knotty transatlantic voyage; to n+1 founding editor Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country, with his hero caught between Russia and America; to Donal Ryan's From a Low and Quiet Sea, three lost men in Ireland; to Hanan al- Shaykh’s The Occasional Virgin, about two young Lebanese-born women, smart and absorbing new reading. |
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|  Top Pop | Fiction Previews Beth Harbison and Debbie Macomber take us to the seaside, Shelley Shepard Gray takes us to Amish country, Danielle Steel takes us to the Sixties, Kimberla Lawson Roby says good-bye to Rev. Curtis Black, and Jo Piazza captures the political zeitgeist. All big-name authors for July. |
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|  Memoirs with More | Nonfiction Previews Poets Donald Hall and Yrsa Daley-Ward, novelists Jonathan Santlofer and Leslie Schwartz, animal advocates Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter, free-from-captivity journalist Michael Scott Moore, high-flying actress Parker Posey, and Allie Rowbottom on her stuck-in-Jell-O family: all writing hot memoirs for July. |
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|  Diversity and Cultural Competency Training: Collections & RA Do you want to ensure that your library’s collections are diverse, equitable, inclusive, and well-read? Do you want to become a more culturally literate librarian and a more effective advocate for your community? We've developed a foundational online course—with live sessions on February 28 & March 14—that will will explore key concepts essential to cultivating and promoting inclusive and equitable collections. |
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|  Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. JOB OF THE WEEK St. John's is seeking an Assistant Professor and eScholarship Repository Librarian |
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