http://booknews.thedave.net/ News for booknews. en-us Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:28:36 e Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:28:36 e 30 http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4051/Best_Political_And_Current_Affairs_Books_Of_2008 booknews The events of 2008 raised a raft of controversies to national consciousness' These powerful books wrap the issues in compelling narratives — and provide the perspective of history' Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:56:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4051/Best_Political_And_Current_Affairs_Books_Of_2008 http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4054/Joseph_O_Neill__The_New_Immigrant_Experience booknews Author Joseph O'Neill says the meaning of nationality and nationhood have changed dramatically in the past two decades' He should know: Raised in Holland, the half-Irish, half-Turkish author of Netherland now lives with his family in New York City' Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:43:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4054/Joseph_O_Neill__The_New_Immigrant_Experience http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4052/_Twilight__Brings_Vampires_Back_To_Life booknews Teens stood in line for hours on Thursday to catch the midnight opening of Twilight, the much-anticipated movie based on Stephenie Meyer's popular book series' Vampires are everywhere these days — dominating best-seller lists, movies and TV' Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:41:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4052/_Twilight__Brings_Vampires_Back_To_Life http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4053/Thanksgiving_Travelers_Brave_Holiday__Traffic_ booknews When you hit the road this Thanksgiving, take a look at the driver who honks at you: Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic, has a theory that men honk more than women, and expensive cars honk more at less expensive cars' Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4053/Thanksgiving_Travelers_Brave_Holiday__Traffic_ http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4056/Jhumpa_Lahiri_s_Struggle_To_Feel_American booknews Nationality, tradition and belonging: The themes of Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction spring from the complexities of the author's own life' Born to Indian parents in London and raised in Rhode Island, Lahiri says she's struggled for four decades to feel like she belongs in America' Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:53:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4056/Jhumpa_Lahiri_s_Struggle_To_Feel_American http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4055/Listen_To_The_2008_National_Book_Award_Winners booknews A novel about a notorious Florida outlaw and a history of Thomas Jefferson's hidden slave family were among the winners at the 59th annual awards' Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:17:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4055/Listen_To_The_2008_National_Book_Award_Winners http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4057/_Liar_s_Poker__Author_Sees_Upside_To_Market_Crash booknews Michael Lewis, author of a new book called Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, contends the current Wall Street slump will have some healthy long-term effects, including more moderate financial risk-taking and more proportionate rewards for CEOs' Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:13:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4057/_Liar_s_Poker__Author_Sees_Upside_To_Market_Crash http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4058/Life_Of_Chinese_Poet_Examined_In_Verse booknews Eighth century Chinese poet Du Fu, one of the most admired lyric poets in the world, left behind some 1,400 poems and a record of a life that translator and editor David Young has now turned into a biography in verse' Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:34:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4058/Life_Of_Chinese_Poet_Examined_In_Verse http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4060/Niall_Ferguson_On_The_Crucial__Ascent_Of_Money_ booknews In his new book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, historian Niall Ferguson argues that money, in its many forms, is the 'root of most human progress'' He traces money's evolution from Mesopotamia to modern microfinance' Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:51:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4060/Niall_Ferguson_On_The_Crucial__Ascent_Of_Money_ http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4059/With__A_Mercy___A__Beloved__Author_Returns booknews Set in the 17th century, Toni Morrison's new novel A Mercy is the story of a slave girl whose mother gives her away to a stranger in a desperate attempt to secure her a better future' Maureen Corrigan hails the book as a prequel (of sorts) to Morrison's earlier novel Beloved' Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:16:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4059/With__A_Mercy___A__Beloved__Author_Returns http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4061/Junot_Diaz_On__Becoming_American_ booknews After the author came to the United States from the Dominican Republic, he says, he became obsessed with his home country' Diaz eventually adjusted and learned about the new culture by reading' Books, he says, gave him a road map' Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:49:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4061/Junot_Diaz_On__Becoming_American_ http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4062/The_Big_Pictures__Best_Gift_Books_2008 booknews The season of giving makes us think big, and that means picture books — from coffee-table extravaganzas to smaller stuff that's big on surprise and ambition' Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4062/The_Big_Pictures__Best_Gift_Books_2008 http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4063/The_Naked_Chef_Tackles_Turkey booknews 'I think it would be wrong to say to America: Have a really drab or boring Christmas, or Thanksgiving meal' Instead, I would try and be clever and look at the weekly budget and just get that turkey working for you'' Chef Jamie Oliver offers frugal holiday meal tips' Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:13:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4063/The_Naked_Chef_Tackles_Turkey http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4065/The_Art_Of_Translation booknews Literary translation isn't as straightforward as you might think, especially when the choice of a single word can determine the arc of an entire work' Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:48:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4065/The_Art_Of_Translation http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4094/Author_Pieces_Together_Natural_Mosaic booknews The environmental author Terry Tempest Williams writes about the collision of the human and natural worlds' She's best known for Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place' Her new book is called Finding Beauty in a Broken World' Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:39:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4094/Author_Pieces_Together_Natural_Mosaic http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4064/The_10_Best_Cookbooks_Of_2008 booknews If there's any unforeseen upside of the economic crisis, it's this: People are cooking again' This year's collection of cookbooks promises surprisingly delicious weeknight dinners that don't dirty every pot you own, made from ordinary ingredients' Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:51:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4064/The_10_Best_Cookbooks_Of_2008 http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4095/Tracking_Jewish_History_Through_Vinyl_Albums booknews In a new book, authors Roger Bennett and Josh Kun detail American Jewish history through vinyl albums' They are trying to answer questions such as, 'Who are we?' and 'What are we inheriting?' in what Bennett calls the 'beginning of a journey'' Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:37:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4095/Tracking_Jewish_History_Through_Vinyl_Albums http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4096/Jon_Scieszka__A_Seriously_Funny__Knucklehead_ booknews Children's author Jon Scieszka has written two dozen fantastical books, including The Stinky Cheese Man and the Time Warp Trio series, but his most recent work is an autobiography geared toward children' Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:14:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4096/Jon_Scieszka__A_Seriously_Funny__Knucklehead_ http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4097/Security_Contractors_Play_By__Big_Boy_Rules__In_Iraq booknews Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru has extensively covered the 'parallel army' of private security contractors' His book Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting In Iraq, details the tens of thousands of 'mercs' who arrived in Iraq in the absence of sufficient levels of U'S' troops' Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:58:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/4097/Security_Contractors_Play_By__Big_Boy_Rules__In_Iraq http://booknews.thedave.net/news/2071/_Outliers__Puts_Self_Made_Success_To_The_Test booknews Why do Asian kids outperform American kids in math? How did Bill Gates become a billionaire computer entrepreneur? Malcolm Gladwell takes on these questions and more in his book Outliers' He argues that the 'self-made man' is a myth' Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:00 e http://booknews.thedave.net/news/2071/_Outliers__Puts_Self_Made_Success_To_The_Test