Blog Profile / New York Times: Books
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Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance 1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown 2. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson 3. THE RECKLESS BRIDE, by Stephanie Laurens 4. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson 5. 61 HOURS, by Lee Child
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance 1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson 2. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson 3. THE FINKLER QUESTION, by Howard Jacobson 4. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave 5. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese
No Bridge Too Far: Literary Agents Move to Brooklyn
Manhattan literary agencies are doing the previously unthinkable: moving to Brooklyn.
Times Will Rank E-Book Best Sellers
The New York Times will publish e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction beginning early next year, a reflection of the growing sales and influence of digital publishing.
Armchair Traveler: Book Review: Jet Age — The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
Sam Howe Verhovek writes of the dawn of the jet age and of those who designed and flew the planes.
Books of The Times: How a Little Man Became a Big, Big Marine in World War II and Beyond
Robert Coram recounts the life of “Brute,” Gen. Victor Krulak of the Marines.
Marilyn Monroe’s Stuffing Recipe Stars in a Remake
A new book includes a recipe in the starlet’s handwriting that suggests that she not only cooked, but cooked confidently and with flair.
Amazon Increases Kindle Royalties to Publishers
By making the royalty rate more attractive, Amazon is trying to encourage publishers to sell digital versions of their periodicals in the Kindle Store.
Adrian Paunescu, Poet Who Praised a Dictator, Dies at 67
Mr. Paunescu, Romania’s most famous poet, remained popular among his countrymen despite his praise for the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Books of The Times: Dispatches and Details From a Life in Literature
Although Saul Bellow repeatedly apologizes for being a lousy correspondent in this volume of his collected letters, he shows himself to be a gifted and emotionally voluble letter writer.
How Cancer Acquired Its Own Biographer
Once a patient asked Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee to tell her what she was up against. Answering that question led him to write a book.
The TV Watch: A New Bush, a Lot Like the Old One
There was something jarring about suddenly seeing George W. Bush on screen again, and it wasn’t déjà vu.
With Book, Bush Is Back in Spotlight
George W. Bush will end a self-imposed silence about his presidency in an NBC special with Matt Lauer on Monday.
Books of The Times: Morality Tales as Horror and Suspense
John Grisham’s “Confession” is about a man wrongly convicted of murder and the man who claims to be the killer; Stephen King’s “Full Dark, No Stars” contains four short stories.
Off the Shelf: Working (and Living) the Company Way
Hardy Green provides an account of the rise and fall of company towns across the last 180 years of industrialization.
Femme Fatale
Stacy Schiff penetrates an ancient thicket of personalities and propaganda to reconstruct the Macedonian-Egyptian queen Cleopatra in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence.
The Lay of the Land
Two decades after “Spartina,” John Casey revisits his fictional seaside town in Rhode Island’s South County.
The Nobelist and the Pygmies
In his look at indigenous African religion, V. S. Naipaul is newly willing to acknowledge human frailty, starting with his own.
Beyond Tourism
Tony Hiss’s meditation on travel centers on its power to awaken a latent, childlike sense of wonder at the world around us.
Neighborhood Watch
The heroine of Gish Jen’s novel, a Chinese-American woman mourning her husband and best friend, helps a Cambodian family who have lost even more.