Today’s reviews — 5/22
New York Times
Books of The Times: In These Places, Old Age Becomes a Team Sport
A PLACE CALLED CANTERBURY: Tales of the New Old Age in America
By Dudley Clendinen
371 pages. Viking. $24.95.
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LEISUREVILLE: Adventures in America’s Retirement Utopias
By Andrew D. Blechman
244 pages. Atlantic Monthly Press. $25.
Washington Post
THE GERMAN BRIDE
By Joanna Hershon
Ballantine. 304 pp. $25
USA Today
Summer books roundup (discussed in an earlier post)
America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
Kenneth C. Davis
(Smithsonian Books, $26.95)
Book buzz: Frey’s ‘Morning’ after; Meyer’s ‘Host’ is a big hit
Entertainment Weekly
David Beinoff
A-
Salon.com
Who killed the literary critic?
The Death of the Critic
by Ronan McDonald
Salon’s reviewers, Laura Miller and Louis Bayard discuss the author’s thesis that the role of the book critic is still important (some more so than others). Bayard makes this great pointL
“Instead of bemoaning the decline of literature, should we be doing a better job of showing people what they’re missing: the excitement of unexpected insights, the thrill of new voices, the sex of ideas?”
(Warning: A Microsoft ad obscures some of the text. I found it impossible to get rid of, but the rabbits are darned cute.)
San Francisco Chronicle
Snuff
by Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday; $24.95
Los Angeles Times
‘The Chris Farley Show’ by Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby
Hardcover: $29.95
Publisher: Viking Adult (May 6, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0670019232
ISBN-13: 978-0670019236
Barnes & Noble Review
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
by Adam Leith Gollner
reviewed by Dava Sobel (Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets)
Wall Street Journal
Creative Capital
By Spencer E. Ante
(Harvard Business Press, 299 pages, $35)Riding the Waves
By Leo Beranek
(MIT Press, 235 pages, $24.95)