Books for Grownups, October 2007 10/16/2007
This month's installment of Books for Grownups, a collaboration between PW and AARP, presents another handful of great new books for boomers. There's Denis Johnson's epic Vietnam novel, Tree of Smoke, which has become something of an istant classic. In nonfiction, Anne Kreamer consideres the power of Going Grey. And, in the How-To list, there's a book that promises seven steps to Ultralongevity.
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Good Enough to Eat By Wendy Werris - 10/29/2007
“Why don’t you order for me?” I ask Michael Pollan, author of the bestselling The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the upcoming In Defense of Food, (The Penguin Press, Jan. 2008). We’re at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters’s ode to exquisite cuisine and one of the forerunners of the whole food movement in America.
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Coming to America: A PW Profile of Ha Jin By Wendy Smith - 09/17/2007
The author of the award-winning novel Waiting and other works that have made the personal and political conflicts of people in his native China resonate with Western readers, turns his eye to the American scene in his forthcoming book A Free Life.
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Writers Reveal What Winning Really Means By Staff - 08/27/2007
Sure, it's an honor just to be nominated. But what does winning an award do for an author's career? Baby boomer writers speak out.
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On The Road with Helen Simpson By Craig Morgan Teicher - 08/23/2007
British short story writer Helen Simpson lives in London. Knopf published her newest collection, The Driver’sSeat, on this side of the pond. PW talked to Simpson just as she’d arrived on the West Coast of the U.S. for the first time in her life, and talked to her about the Red Sox, "the autobiographical question," and an unlikely boom industry in the U.K.
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When Things Get Tough By Ken Burns - 08/20/2007
Master documentarian Ken Burns on rendering the war to those who were not there
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Veteran Politico Raises Hell In New Memoir By Dermot McEvoy - 08/21/2007
This fall, as candidates compete to become the next president of the United States, one memoir, Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive (University of Wisconsin Press, September), renders judgment on every person who has held that office in the post-Vietnam era--offering some surprising verdicts.
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What Boomers Want: Books for Grownups 04/20/2007 PW and AARP are working together to produce bi-monthly lists of great books that appeal to baby boomers. From Christopher Buckley's new novel Boomsday to This Is Your Brain On Music, there's something here for everyone.
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