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THE GARNER REPORT: OCTOBER 1998 | PAGE 1, 2
O C T O B E R _ N O N F I C T I O N : Adams, Scott: "The Joy of Work: How to Find Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers" (HarperBusiness). Dilbert guy -- on pranks, etc. Avedon, Richard: "Versace: The Naked and the Dressed" (Random House). Photographs. Bagemihl, Bruce: "Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" (St. Martin's). Yep, animals are often gay. Baldwin, Neil: "Legends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God" (Public Affairs). On myth of Quetzalcoatl. Barry, Dave: "Dave Barry Turns 50" (Crown). Bazell, Robert: "Her-2: The Making of a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer" (Random House). de Beauvoir, Simone: "A Transatlantic Love Affair: Simone de Beauvoir's Letters to Nelson Algren" (New Press). Bergner, Daniel: "God of the Rodeo: The Search for Hope, Faith, and a Six-Second Ride in Louisiana's Angola Prison" (Crown). Berlin, Ira (editor): "Remembering Slavery" (New Press). Based on only known taped interviews with former slaves. Bird, Kai: "The Color of Truth: McGeorge and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms" (Simon & Schuster). Bly, Robert with Marion Woodman: "The Maiden King: The Triumph of the Feminine" (Holt). "Reuniting masculine and feminine." Bloom, Harold: "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" (Riverhead). Sweeping and oddly moving -- maybe Bloom's best. Bono, Chastity: "Family Outing" (Little, Brown). Sonny & Cher's spawn. Bradley, Bill: "Values of the Game" (Artisan). Essays on basketball. Branson, Richard: "Losing My Virginity: How I've Had Fun and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way" (Times). Brown, Lyn Mikel: "Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girl's Anger" (Harvard). Burleigh, Nina: "A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unresolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer" (Bantam). From writer who played "footsies" with Clinton on Air Force One, account of JFK mistress. Burns, Bobby: "Shelter: One Man's Journey from Homelessness to Hope" (Univ. of Arizona). Burrows, William E.: "This New Ocean: A History of the First Space Age" (Random House). Carson, Rachel: "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writings of Rachel Carson" (Beacon). Chase, John: "Glitter, Stucco & Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City" (Verso). On California architecture. Colbert, David (editor): "Eyewitness to the American West: From the First Explorers to the New Age Seekers" (Viking). Collins, Judy: "Singing Lessons" (Pocket). Memoir of "healing," with CD! Conterio, Karen: "Bodily Harm: A Healing Program for Self-Injurers" (Hyperion). One of several new books on this topic. Cox, Meg: "The Heart of a Family: Searching America for New Traditions that Fulfill Us" (Random House). Curott, Phyllis: "Book of Shadows" (Broadway). "True story" of Ivy League woman's discovery of Wiccan spirituality. Davenport, Guy: "Objects on a Table: Harmonious Display in Art and Literature" (Counterpoint). David, Elizabeth: "South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David" (North Point). Famed British food writer. Davis, Erik: "Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Religion in the Information Age" (Harmony). Technopaganism. Dominick, Andie: "Needles: A Memoir" (Scribner). Sister with diabetes. Donoghue, Denis: "The Practice of Reading" (Yale). Literary essays. Dornenburg, Andrew and Karen Page: "Dining Out: Secrets from America's Leading Critics, Chefs and Restauranteurs" (Wiley). Great gossip about the restaurant biz; authors won James Beard award for previous book. Drew, Bettina: "Crossing the Expendable Landscape" (Graywolf). On America's rootless places -- Stamford, Hilton Head, etc. Praise from Robert Stone. Editor unknown: "Going Down: Great Writing on Oral Sex" (Chronicle). Selections from Updike, Nin, Jong, Zappa, etc. Ellis, Richard: "The Search for the Giant Squid" (Lyons). Evans, Harold: "The American Century" (Knopf). In words and pix, from former Random House head. Fadiman, Anne: "Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader" (FSG). Author of last year's great "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." Feinberg, Leslie: "Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue" (Beacon). Gender studies. Foner, Eric: "The Story of American Freedom" (Norton). History of U.S. Fradkin, Philip: "Magnitude 8: Life Along San Andreas Fault" (Holt). French, Marilyn: "A Season in Hell: A Memoir" (Knopf). An angry rant about surviving esophageal cancer. Gay, Peter: "My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin" (Yale). Freud biographer. Gehr, Richard: "The Phish Book" (Villard). Trippy band bio, from Salon contributor. Geller, Judith: "Titanic: Women and Children First" (Norton). Billed as first book to "commemorate women & children on board the ship." George, Nelson: "Hip-Hop America" (Viking). Our debt to the black Gen X. Goody, Jack: "Food and Love: A Cultural History of East and West" (Verso). Gould, Stephen Jay: "Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms" (Harmony). Essays. Hamill, Pete: "Why Sinatra Matters" (Little, Brown). Hamill knew Sinatra; book described as "not fawning." Hickam, Homer: "Rocket Boys" (Delacourt). Memoir of W.Va. youth, from retired NASA engineer; movie rights to Universal. Hillis, Daniel: "The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work" (Basic). From head of Disney's Imagineering Works. Hoffman, Donald D.: "Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See" (Norton). From UC-Irvine prof. Humphrey, Derek: "Freedom to Die: People, Politics and the Right to Die Movement" (St. Martin's). "Final Exit" author, with co-writer. Johnstone, Bob: "We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Electronic Revolution" (Basic). Wired writer. Jordan, Michael: "For the Love of the Game: My Story" (Crown). Autobiography of basketball hero. Kaufman, Margo: "Clara, The Early Years: The Story of the Pug Who Ruled My Life" (Villard). Author is "Hollywood correspondent" for Pug Talk magazine. Klein, Edward: "Just Jackie: Her Private Years" (Ballantine). Klemperer, Victor: "I Will Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1934-1941" (Random House). WWII journals. Lambert, Craig: "Mind Over Water: Lessons of Life from the Art of Rowing" (Houghton Mifflin). Author is staff writer for Harvard magazine. Landro, Laura: "Survivor: My Fight Against Leukemia" (Simon & Schuster). Wall Street Journal editor. Leaming, Barbara: "Marilyn Monroe: A Biography" (Crown). Lehman, David: "The Last Avant-Guard: The Making of the New York School of Poets" (Doubleday). Levy, Naomi: "To Begin Again" (Knopf). Memoir by that rarity, a female rabbi. Lewis, Charles: "The Buying of the Congress" (Avon). How special interests have screwed democracy, by former "60 Minutes" producer. Library of America: "Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, 1959-1975" (Viking). Two-volume anthology. Loewenstien, Dora (editor): "The Rolling Stones: A Life on the Road" (Viking). Lopate, Phillip (editor): "Writing New York: A Literary Anthology" (Library of America/Viking). Lorenz, Lee: "The World of William Steig" (Artisan). New Yorker artist. Madigan, Carol (editor): "When They Were Kids" (Times). Childhood stories of 400 or so famous people. Marsh, Robert C.: "Dialogues and Discoveries: James Levine: His Life and Music" (Scribner). Massing, Michael: "The Fix: Solving the Nation's Drug Problem" (Simon & Schuster). Author is contributor to the New York Review of Books and a MacArthur fellow. Argument in a nutshell: Nixon had great drug policy. Who knew? Masumoto, David Mas: "Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil" (Norton). Japanese-American farmer's meditation on land, family. Mawson, Douglas: "The Home of the Blizzard" (St. Martin's). True story of Antarctic derring-do, originally published in 1915. Mayer, Henry: "All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery" (St. Martin's). McBrien, William: "Cole Porter: A Biography" (Knopf). Good advance word. McClanahan, Ed: "My Vita, If You Will" (Counterpoint). Stories and journalism from Southern writer, former Merry Prankster. McElheny, Victor: "Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edward Land" (Perseus). Founder of Polaroid. McGrath, Chip (editor): "Books of the Century" (Times). Collection of important reviews from New York Times Book Review editors. Michaelis, David: "N.C. Wyeth: A Biography" (Knopf). Andrew's larger-than-life father, who died in a mysterious car accident. Miller, Alice: "Paths of Life: Seven Scenarios" (Pantheon). How we become who we are. Morris, Edmund: "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" (Random House). Unusual-looking book by Reagan's official biographer. O'Brien, Timothy: "Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz and Danger of America's Gambling Industry" (Times Business). O'Toole, Fintan: "A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816" (FSG). Bio of dramatist and politician, by smart drama critic. Page, Tim: "Dawn Powell: A Biography" (Holt). Bio of recently rediscovered NYC novelist, by Washington Post classical music critic. Panek, Richard: "Seeing and Believing" (Viking). History of the telescope. Pantaeva, Irina: "Siberian Dream" (Bard). Memoir, from childhood in remote Siberian town to success as Asian supermodel! Phillips, Anita: "In Defense of Masochism" (St. Martin's). Writer is editor of literary journal called "Interstice." Pritchard, David: "The Beatles: An Oral History" (Hyperion). Puttnam, David: "Movies and Money" (Knopf). From former head of Columbia Pictures; about history of Hollywood and commerce. Ragas, Meg Cohen: "Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick" (Chronicle). Ramsland, Katherine: "Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today" (HarperPrism). Borderline gonzo journalist and Anne Rice biographer on the U.S. vampire cult. Renquist, William H.: "All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime" (Knopf). Supreme Court justice autobiography. Rich, Frank: "Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for the New York Times, 1980-93" (Random House). Curtain call for the Butcher of Broadway. Ridgeway, Rick: "The Shadow of Kilimanjaro: On Foot Across East Africa" (Holt). Rohm, Wendy: "The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates" (Times). Rolling Stone (editors): "The Seventies" (Little, Brown). History of decade. Roszak, Theodore: "America the Wise: Longetivity and the Culture of Compassion" (Houghton Mifflin). On the unsung resources of the aging. Roth, Michael (editor): "Freud: Conflict and Culture" (Knopf). Essays on occasion of Library of Congress exhibition. Siegel, Bernie: "Prescription for Living" (HarperCollins). Inspiration for "joyful life." Sgubin, Marta: "Cooking for Madam" (Scribner). Jackie O's chef, recipes. Smith, Lissa (editor): "Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports" (Atlantic Monthly). Essay collection. Smith, Patricia and Charles Johnson: "Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery" (Harcourt Brace). Companion to PBS series; this is the same Patricia Smith who was recently fired from Boston Globe. Solotaroff, Ted: "Truth Comes in Blows" (Norton). Memoir about writer and his overbearing writer father. Soyinka, Wole: "The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness" (Oxford). On contemporary Africa. Spoto, Donald: "The Hidden Jesus" (St. Martin's). Bio. Steele, Shelby: "A Dream Deferred: A Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America" (HarperCollins). How 1960s activism wanted to assuage liberal guilt, not cure genuine racial divides. Steinhardt, Arnold: "Indivisible By Four: A String Quartet in Search of Harmony" (FSG). On Guarneri Quartet. Strong, Marilee: "A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain" (Viking). Why people cut themselves up. Strumpf, Bill: "The Ice Palace That Melted Away: Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues" (Pantheon). On evils of techno-culture. Stuart, Sarah Payne: "My First Cousin Once Removed: Money, Madness, and the Family of Robert Lowell" (HarperCollins). On poet's crack-up, billed as somewhat humorous. Sullivan, Andrew: "Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex and Survival" (Knopf). After AIDS, from former New Republic editor. Theroux, Paul: "Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents" (Houghton Mifflin). How to end a friendship with V.S. Naipaul. Wasler, Robert: "Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History" (Oxford). Waterfield, Robin: "Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran" (St. Martin's). Watkins, Elizabeth: "On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970" (Johns Hopkins). Williams, Juan: "Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary" (Times). Wills, Christopher: "Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution" (Perseus). Yau, John (editor): "Fetish" (Four Walls, Eight Windows). Essays, Bukowski to Lethem
Zimmerman, Robert: "Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, the First Manned
Flight to Another World" (Four Walls, Eight Windows).
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