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| | | October 23, 2017 | Sam Shepard's Final Fiction
Barbara Hoffert, @barbarahoffert
When Sam Shepard died on July 27, it was impossible to believe that we would hear no more of that wise, astringent voice. Granting us respite, this December Knopf will release his final work of fiction, Spy of the First Person (96p. ISBN 9780525521563. $18), which he finished just before his death and which is dedicated to Shepard by his three children. At its tersely beautiful heart is an unnamed narrator, an older man actively dredging up memories but increasingly stilled by the ravages of a disease that leaves him dependent on caretakers—a disease that sounds like the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that took Shepard’s life. |
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| Barnes, Ehrenreich, Powers, & More | Barbara's Picks
We're fortunate that Man Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes's new novel, The Only Story, has just dropped into the April schedule. Another Man Booker Prize winner, Richard Flanagan, appears with his new novel, First Person, with the rest of fiction ranging from Richard Powers's environmental fantasia, The Overstory, to Madeline Miller's classic remake, Circe. Nonfiction includes Mohammed Al Samawi's The Fox Hunt, the memoir of a young Yemeni Muslim dangerously turned interfaith advocate, to Barbara Ehrenreich's Natural Causes, challenging our stay-young mentality. |
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| | Five Essential Poetry Titles | Poetry Previews
National Poetry Month always promises a flood of good books from which to choose, and this coming April you can't go wrong with new volumes from Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Dennis, National Book Award winner Ha Jin, former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, current U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, and New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young. |
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| Stories by Shriver & Sittenfeld & More | Upmarket Fiction
National Book Award finalist Lionel Shriver's Property: Stories Between Two Novellas and Curtis Sittenfeld's You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories head up a list of fiction titles by authors both debut (Luke Allnutt, Nafissa Thompson-Spires) and veteran (Jonathan Evison, Gerald Murnane) that will be appreciated by smart readers. |
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| | Hillerman, Perry, & Lots of Cozies | Mystery Previews
True, you'll have Anne Hillerman's Cave of Bones, Martha Grimes's The Knowledge: A Richard Jury Mystery, and Anne Perry's series starter, Twenty-One Days: A Daniel PItt Novel, to bring on the chill, but Elizabeth J. Duncan's The Marmalade Murders are among the sweeter mystery treats you can cozy up to come April. |
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| Baldacci, Deaver, Scottoline, & More | Thriller Previews
Great new work from David Baldacci, Jeffery Deaver, Iris Johansen, James Patterson, and Lisa Scottoline, among other favorites. In addition, Sara Shepard' s The Elizas offers meta-thrills as a debuting young author finds those around her mixing up her life and the events in her novel, and Peter Swanson's All the Beautiful Lies features a bereaved young man who might be the victim of two conniving women. |
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| Carr, Dickey, Scalzi, & More | Pop Fiction Previews
Robyn Carr takes you to The Family Gathering, Kevin Hearne's ancient druidic hero gets Scourged in his final outing, Chrisopher Moore goes Noir in post–World War II San Francisco, and John Scalzi lets his characters meet a very dangerous game called Hilketa Head On. Women's fiction, historicals, and fantasy to everyone's taste. |
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| Remarkable Women & Civil Rights Struggle | History Previews
The remarkable women here range from Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters (Andrea Barnet's Visionary Women) to the daughters of Elizabeth Stuart (Nancy Goldstone's Daughters of the Winter Queen). Among other history titles, James F. Simon's Eisenhower vs. Warren considers the conflict between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren regarding civil rights, and Michael K. Honey's To the Promised Land looks beyond Martin Luthor King's civil rights battles to his concerns about poverty. |
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| Body and Soul | Psych, Self-Help, & Cooking Memoir Previews
Self-help from two former Cosmopolitan editors in chief, Joanna Coles ( Love Rules) and Kate White ( The Gutsy Girl Handbook). Plus, Coles springs up in Nina Collins's What Would Virginia Woolf Do? Plus, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and the Smollett Eats siblings turn up with memories. Books to keep body and soul together. |
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