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 Entertainment | Books
Mexican Writer Wins International Poetry Award
 Xinhuanet
Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco on Monday won the Federico Garcia Lorca International Poetry Award in Spain. The jury said the value of the poetical work of Pacheco is a great contribution to the Hispanic literature.more »»»
Hemingway's Cuban Home Imperiled
 UPI
The Cuban home of author Ernest Hemingway is beginning to fall apart, and U.S. conservationists are being stymied at saving it by U.S. regulations. Hemingway lived in the hilltop villa among mango and guava trees, just south of Havana from 1939 to 1960, after moving from his home in Key West, Fla.more »»»
Portland Baker Writes Diet Book Based on Da Vinci Code Formula
 Clarke Canfield
A baker who lost half his business to the low-carb craze has written a book based on the mathematical principles of the Golden Ratio, a formula used by Leonardo Da Vinci and made popular in the best seller, "The Da Vinci Code."more »»»
No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame
 Sharon Olds
For reasons spelled out below, the poet Sharon Olds has declined to attend the National Book Festival in Washington, which, coincidentally or not, takes place September 24, the day of an antiwar mobilization in the capital.more »»»
A Book That Googles Google
 Michael Liedtke
Veteran technology journalist John Battelle releases "The Search," a 288-page exploration of the company whose dorm-room invention, initially spurned by dot-com entrepreneurs, is now synonymous with looking up information online.more »»»
Report: No One Using Mexico's Public Libraries
 Wire services
A low number of users - only 25 a day on average - is the result of a poor selection of books, deteriorating buildings and underqualified librarians, education officials say. They worry the libraries are simply becoming storage houses for books that no one wants to read.more »»»
Forever Young
 Stacy Schiff
In "circular skirt and scanties," Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" flounced into print 50 years ago today. But before she tripped off the tongue and into the literary canon, before she lent her name to inflatable dolls and escort agencies, Lolita was a much-rejected manuscript, huddling in a locked drawer.more »»»
Book by Cuban Five Member Released in Havana
 Ahora.cu
A book entitled "Inseparable Poems" by Antonio Guerrero, one of the "Cuban Five," was launched on Monday in Havana with the presence of the president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon.more »»»
Death by Public Relations
 Jules Siegel
In "War Made Easy" Norman Solomon demolishes the myth of an independent American press zealously guarding sacred values of free expression. Although strictly focusing on the shameless history of media cheerleading for the principal post-World War II American wars, invasions and interventions, he calls into question by implication the idea of the press as some kind of institutional counterforce to government and corporate power.more »»»
CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away
 Michael Hirsh
In a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members.more »»»
Anthology Captures Indigenous Voices
 El Universal
In celebration of an ongoing resurgence of indigenous literature comes a monumental new, three-volume anthology that brings together a leading generation of its authors. Entitled "Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos" ("Words of the True Peoples"), the anthology aims to give a broader audience to indigenous authors now seeking to reclaim their non-Hispanic cultural heritage.more »»»
CIA Blocks Book on Tora Bora, Author Says
 Katherine Shrader
The CIA is squelching publication of a new book detailing events leading up to Osama bin Laden's escape from his Tora Bora mountain stronghold during the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, says a former CIA officer who led much of the fighting.more »»»
On the Shelf: Robert James Waller
 ABCNews.com
You may have already seen it in the bookstore: High Plains Tango by international bestselling author, Robert James Waller. The third novel in a trilogy connected with The Bridges of Madison County and A Thousand Country Roads, High Plains Tango is a signature book, richly plotted and filled with memorable characters.more »»»
Bookstores Plan Midnight Sales, Parties
 John Rice
One of the country's most famous bookstores, Libreria Gandhi in Mexico City, has announced its main branch will hold a special midnight sale of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" so fans can get their hands on J.K. Rowling's new book the moment it becomes available: 12:01 a.m. Saturday.more »»»
Mourn on the Fourth of July
 Norman Solomon
Am I the only US citizen who finds the annual Fourth rituals to be cloying and deceptive? Yeah - just me and probably tens of millions of other people. Ever since the Vietnam War, the Fourth of July has seemed to be a celebration of the past in the midst of a distinctly un-glorious present.more »»»
Reading Books A Necessary Good
 Rhona Statland de López
When I was teaching more than a decade ago, one student told me that he didn't have to read because he was going to inherit his father's business anyway and live a very comfortable life. As an avid reader and lover of books, I was so disconcerted by his comment that I didn't know how to respond.more »»»
Don't Be Fooled: Advanced and Rational Societies Can Commit Environmental Suicide
 Johann Hari
In his chilling new book Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, the Pulitzer-prize winning geographer, Jared Diamond, describes how some of the most advanced civilizations in history committed ecocide without realizing it. "What," he asks, "were Easter Islanders saying as they cut down the last tree on their island?"more »»»
Kids & Books Passion for Husband and Wife Team
 Karen Mahabir
With 40 books to their names ranging from picture books for 2-year-olds to fantasy novels and biographies they are now incorporating Mexican themes into their work with the hope of enlightening students in the United States about Mexico's history and culture.more »»»
The New Mainstream
 Guy Garcia
In his new book, The New Mainstream, journalist Guy Garcia explains how a multicultural revolution is transforming the American economy. It is putting a multicultural spin on everything from business and politics to entertainment and technology, and no amount of armed vigilantes on the Arizona border can stop it.more »»»
Hiking Tips From Author Of Alternative Travel Guide
 Barbara Kastelein
Marketed as "the cure for the common trip," a new version of the Moon Handbook is offering more than the standard itinerary and aiming to give readers the tools they need to make their own choices and create a personal travel strategy that reflects their own tastes.more »»»
Your Next Best Vacation...Even If You Don't Take It
 Angela Becerra
I realize this is a travel guide book, not a novel. Or so it would appear to the casual shelf-browser. The reason I’m recommending it to you, is because this is honestly unlike any guide book I’ve ever consulted - this is a guide book you can read just for fun.more »»»
Mexico's Embattled First Lady Writes Book
 Mark Stevenson
First lady Marta Sahagun, battered by several unflattering biographies, promoted her own book Friday describing her rise from provincial schoolgirl to the leader of a controversial charity organization.more »»»
Crazy Rich: Are Americans Successful Because They're Nuts?
 Daniel Gross
That's the thesis of a new book, The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in America, by John D. Gartner, a psychotherapist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. more »»»
New Book Probes Wealth Of Sahagún
 El Universal
The sudden wealth amassed by the children of Mexico's first lady is the subject of a new book by Argentine journalist Olga Wornat, who examines a fortune that has been growing via alleged influence peddling.more »»»
The New McCarthyism
 Juan Cole
A witch hunt against Columbia professor and writer Joseph Massad, and the New York Times' disgraceful support for it, represent the gravest threat to academic freedom in decades.more »»»
Up From Babalu
 Joshua Glenn
"You can't just listen to Latin music - mambo, Cubop, boogaloo, salsa. You have to see it, smell it, dance it, taste it," insists Northampton-based DJ and graphic designer Pablo Yglesias.more »»»
Up From Babalu
 Joshua Glenn
Harriet McBryde Johnson has never been able to walk, dress, or bathe without assistance, due to a congenital neuromuscular disease. Yet this lawyer and disability rights activist simply refuses to abide Jerry Lewis's patronizing "support" for the disabled, or the use of Christopher Reeve out on the DNC stage as a token "crip."more »»»
The Vatican Code
 Maureen Dowd
Some may mock the Vatican for waiting until everyone on earth has read "The Da Vinci Code" to denounce "The Da Vinci Code." I am not one of them. It's Easter, and I don't want to blot my catechism.more »»»
Turf: The Green Dream: The Man Who Invented Ecotopia
 Geov Parrish
The following is Geov Parrish's interview with Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach on the 30th anniversary of his futuristic novel about Pacific Northwest secession, where he talks about localism, the future, and the state of Ecotopian ideals.more »»»
Literary Fashion
 Edward Sorel
Sorel, who currently has an exhibition of his satiric drawings at the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin, examines the fashions of some of literature's more dapper and depressed.more »»»
An Historian's Perspective
 Wire Services
Mexican writer and journalist Carlos Monsivais criticized the relations between the U.S. and Mexican governments and the presence of vigilante groups in Arizona, which have been set up to help intercept migrants.more »»»
A Chronicle of Cons, Fools and a Business World Gone Mad
 Larry Williams
Conspiracy of Fools, Kurt Eichenwald's richly detailed narrative, is likely to be a landmark record - not just of what went wrong at Enron, but of how American business went crazy during the 1990s.more »»»
Iraq War Hits Home In 300-Plus Books
 Carol Memmott
The ground war in Iraq began two years ago today, and since then more than 300 books have been published about the conflict. Only a handful have found commercial success, but Iraq will be a topic hashed out on bookshelves for years, if not decades, to come.more »»»
Autobiographies Prove That Comedy Is Not Pretty
 Susan Kelly
The late comedian Marty Feldman observed that "the pen is mightier than the sword and considerably easier to write with." His witticism comes to mind in reading Phyllis Diller's Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse and Gene Wilder's Kiss Me Like a Stranger.more »»»
Da Vinci Code Shows No Sign Of Cracking
 Hillel Italie
Two years ago this month, Doubleday published a historical thriller with an announced first printing of 85,000 and high hopes that a little-known writer named Dan Brown would catch on with the public.more »»»
Hitler 'Tested Small Atom Bomb'
 Ray Furlong
A German historian has claimed in a new book presented on Monday that Nazi scientists successfully tested a tactical nuclear weapon in the last months of World War II.more »»»
Hunter S. Thompson, 67, Author, Commits Suicide
 Michelle O'Donnell
Hunter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called "gonzo journalism," died in Colorado.more »»»
Chilling Mystery: Why Don't Mexicans Read Books?
 Ken Bensinger
Cristina Woolrich looks across the crowded cafe to the small bookshop she runs, and sighs. "We have the best poetry section in town and we're going to get rid of it," she says. "We're going to have to eliminate almost everything if we want to survive."more »»»
Love Doctor Teaches How To Kiss
 Associated Press
Forget the flowers and chocolate: Learn to pucker up. Psychotherapist Cherie Byrd's book, "Kissing School: Seven Lessons on Love, Lips, and Life Force," gives tips on kissing.more »»»
Still Charmed By A Murderer
 Bob Minzesheimer
Publisher Judith Regan is betting that the national obsession with Scott Peterson's murder case is not abating anytime soon. ReganBooks already has had one best seller and has two more in the works.more »»»
In His Book, Canseco Says Giambi Overused Steroids
 Richard Sandomir
Jose Canseco, the self-anointed "godfather of steroids," alleges in his new book that Jason Giambi, a former Oakland Athletics teammate, "went overboard with steroids" and became "the most outright juicer in the game."more »»»
To Prejean, Death Penalty System is Guilty as Sin
 Jacqueline Blais
During the summers of the 5½ years it took Sister Helen Prejean to write The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions (Random House, $25.95), she sought refuge in a place called Prayer Lodge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana.more »»»
The Everymigrant's Guide to Crossing the Border Illegally
 Charlie Leduff and J. Emilio Flores
The 31-page pamphlet, "Guide for the Mexican Migrant," has infuriated some American politicians and citizens who say the Mexican government is effectively encouraging a criminal activity that is fraying the American cultural fabric and draining state and local municipalities.more »»»
'French Women Don't Get Fat': Like Champagne for Chocolate
 Julia Reed
French author Mireille Guiliano suggests the reason is that "French women take pleasure in staying thin by eating well, while American women see it as a conflict and obsess over it."more »»»
The Top 150 Best-Selling Books
 USA TODAY
Best-Selling Books list based on recent sales. For reviews, book news and a searchable archive of USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, visit booklist.usatoday.commore »»»
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