Consumer Book Coverage

September 5th, 2008

New York Times, Daily

9/5 - THE NECKLACE: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives, By Cheryl Jarvis, 210 pages. Ballantine Books. $24

9/4 - Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin,

Ruth Butler, Yale University Press9/4 - A BETTER ANGEL: Stories, By Chris Adrian, 227 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $23.

9/3- When I Grow Up, Juliana Hatfield, John Wiley & Sons, Sept. 22

9/3 - REAGAN: The Hollywood Years, By Marc Eliot, Illustrated. 375 pages. Harmony Books. $25.95.

9/2 - WAITING FOR AN ORDINARY DAY; The Unraveling of Life in Iraq, By Farnaz Fassihi, 291 pages. PublicAffairs. $26

9/2 - Author of Book Series Sends Kids on a Web Treasure Hun

9/1- THE ANGLO FILES, A Field Guide to the British, By Sarah Lyall, 289 pages. W. W. Norton & Company. $24.95.

9/1 - Jeannette Eyerly, Writer for Teenage Girls, Dies at 100

8/28 - AMERICAN WIFE, By Curtis Sittenfeld, 558 pages. Random House. $26.

8/27 - THE GOOD THIEF, By Hannah Tinti, 327 pages. Dial Press. $25

8/27 - Cape Cod Murder Case Adds Another Chapter

8/27 - THE WAY OF THE WORLD: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, By Ron Suskind, 415 pages. Harper. $27.95

8/26 - MAN IN THE DARK, By Paul Auster, 180 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $23

8/26 - LIFE IN THE BALANCE : A Physician’s Memoir of Life, Love and Loss With Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia. By Thomas Graboys, M.D., with Peter Zheutlin. Union Square Press. 210 pages. $19.95

8/25 - SUPREME COURTSHIP, By Christopher Buckley, 285 pp. Twelve. $24.99

8/19 - THE WRECKING CREW; How Conservatives Rule, By Thomas Frank, 369 pages. Metropolitan Books. $25.

New York Times Book Review (Sunday)

NPR: Books

NBC TODAY Show

Washington Post, Daily

Washington Post, Book World (Sunday)

USA Today

9/5 - The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, Bob Woodward

9/4 - Fall books preview: These 10 titles are certain to be ‘talkers’

9/4- Book Buzz: Political hopefuls get a bookish boost

9/4 - The Little Book, By Selden Edwards, Dutton, 405 pp., $25.95

9/2 The Gargoyle. By Andrew Davidson, Doubleday, 465 pp., $25.95

9/2 - Pharmakon, By Dirk Wittenborn, Viking, 406 pp., $25.95

8/28 - American Wife, By Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, 555 pp., $26

8/28 - Book Buzz: ‘Suite’ surprise from Holocaust victim

8/28 - ‘Turnaround’ takes aim at war’s damages

8/28 - Book roundup: Fiction

The Last Pope, By Luis Miguel Rocha, Putnam, 304 pp., $24.95

Mine All Mine, By Adam Davies, Riverhead, 289 pp., $14, paperback original

More Than It Hurts You, By Darin Strauss, Dutton, 401 pp., $24.95

Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories, Edited by Owen King and John McNally, Free Press, 418 pp., $16, paperback original

8/28 - ‘Thrill’ revisits notorious Leopold/Loeb murder8/24 - Excerpts of the Week:

‘The Gargoyle’ by Andrew Davidson

‘American Wife’ by Curtis Sittenfeld

‘Alfred & Emily’ by Doris Lessing

‘The Story of Edgar Sawtelle’ by David Wroblewski

Entertainment Weekly

8/29, Issue #1009

American Wife, Curtis Siittenfeld, A-

The House at Sugar Beach, Helene Cooper, A-

The Book of Lies. Brad Meltzer, C

Herbie Archives, Vol. One, Richard E. Hughes, A-

A Tale Out of Luck; Willie Nelson and Mike Blakely, C+

8/22 Double issue

People Magazine (book section not available online)

9/15 (double issue)

Book Feature: Skinny Bitch: Bun in the Oven, Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman, Running Press
Lead review, 3 1/2 of 4 stars: Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife, Random House

Four stars:

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl, Stacey O’Brien, Free Press
Map of Home, Randa Jarrar, Other Press

Three stars:

Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town’s Toxic Legacy Nancy A. Nichols, Island Press
Fine Just the Way It Is, Annie Proulx, Scribner

Mentioned:

Being Catholic Now, Kerry Kennedy, Crown

Tie-ins:

HBO series, True Blood based on Charlaine Harris’s Dead Until Dark, Ace Books
PBS series, Spain…On the Road Again. Tie-in title, Spain: A Culinary Road Trip, by Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow, Ecco

9/8 issue

Book feature: Creating Myself, Mia Tyler, Atria (S&S)
Lead review, 3 1/2 of 4 stars: The House at Sugar Beach, Helene Cooper, S&S
Critic’s Choice, 4 of 4 stars: Yesterday’s Weather, Anne Enright, Grove Press
3 stars:

My Husband’s Sweethearts, Bridget Asher, Delacorte

The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick, FSG

Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg, Other Press (HarperCollins)

Thin is the New Happy, Valerie Frankel, St. Martin’s