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Books in the Times

Written on: November 16th, 2009 by: in Blog Posts

There were a number of powerful memoirs and non-fiction choices in this week’s Sunday New York Times Book Review. The selections below are available from the Delaware Library Catalog:

• The new Malcolm Gladwell book is a selection of his essays from the New Yorker magazine, on the hazards of statistical reasoning, portraits of outlier geniuses, and other topics- will What the Dog Saw be the new Blink?
• The next vivid memoir by Mary Karr, Lit, in which she chronicles her fight with alcoholism and early brushes with fame. Reviewer Susan Cheever thinks that it is “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.”
• Another follow up memoir from a woman of accomplishment, Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamieson, is the story of the death from cancer of Jamieson’s husband and the impact of his death on the author’s continuing struggle with manic depression.
• James McManus’ Cowboys Full: the Story of Poker is an “entertaining, informing, and genial” account of the history of the card game and its place in American culture.
• Ground Truth: the Untold Truth of America Under Attack on 9/11 examines newly released government documents to document grim truths about the government’s response to Al Qaeda’s attack on the Twin Towers.