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10/06/2008Author Philippa Gregory discusses new novel 'The Other Queen' on Tuesday

Sigrid Estrada

Author Philippa Gregory

British author Philippa Gregory writes about women in history from the perspective of, as she calls herself, "a radical historian." By that, she means that although her mostly royal subjects – Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; Anne Boleyn – have had barrels of ink expended on dissecting their lives, she looks at them freshly.
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10/05/2008Release date for 'The Jewel of Medina' moved up to Monday 'Supreme Courtship' by Christopher Buckley: Judicial spoof has a Texas twist
Christopher Buckley is known for his Washington, D.C., novels, which are primarily satiric and often laugh-out-loud humorous. His new novel, Supreme Courtship , fits the mold with a twist: The protagonist is a Texan, and the humor is aimed at the Lone Star State, as well as the nation's capital. 'Liberty' by Garrison Keillor: There's news from Lake Wobegon, all of it funny
Garrison Keillor is the originator, in 1974, of Prairie Home Companion , a resurrection of the old-time musical-comedy radio variety show. For his latest book, he goes back to the mythical locale he's most associated with: the moody, painfully subdued people of Lake Wobegon, Minn. 'Guyland' by Michael Kimmel: No girls or gays allowed
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be Guys. 'I See You Everywhere' by Julia Glass: Sisters are a mystery to each other and to us 'Happy Families' by Carlos Fuentes: a kaleidoscopic view of lives in Mexico City
The title of this collection of stories from Mexico's reigning fiction master comes from Tolstoy: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Carlos Fuentes proves this famous proposition with a vengeance, giving us families from the lowest strata of Mexican society to the highest, and just about everything in between. Local and national best-sellers
This week's list of local best-sellers is from the Bookworm, 3245 Main St., Frisco. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list. Author talks and signings this week
Jana C. Bertrand signs Beware the Red Flag Man: What Mothers Wish Their Daughters Could Know 1 p.m. Sunday at Barnes & Noble, 5301 Belt Line Road, east of Montfort. Anne Rice memoir on loss of faith, rediscovery recalls life in Texas
Most readers probably associate Anne Rice with New Orleans, the city where she was born, spent much of her life and set her Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches novels. 10/03/2008Nobel literature prize to be announced on Oct. 9
The 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be presented on Oct. 9, the Swedish Academy said Friday, completing the schedule of this year's Nobel announcements. 10/02/2008Fall books preview: A few pages to leaf through this season
There's a tradition in publishing that says the reading public gets distracted during an election season – best to stay away from major book releases. Like so much else, this crumb of conventional wisdom has been swept under the rug. 10/01/2008'Sex and City' author's new novel looks at tony Greenwich Village life and real estate

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Candace Bushnell, author of One Fifth Avenue and Sex and the City

Fans of Candace Bushnell may be surprised to learn that her latest book focuses more on high-rises than high heels. The Sex and the City author turns her trenchant wit and eye for social folly to real estate with One Fifth Avenue, which focuses on characters inhabiting a landmark art deco building in New York City's Greenwich Village. Ms. Bushnell, 49, will speak Thursday in Richardson, an appearance that will be recorded for public radio's Writers Studio series.

09/28/2008'Fahrenheit 451' celebrations Grandson of creator pens first 'Madeline' adventure in decades
NEW YORK – From the nibs of his ink pen to the spirit of his rhyme on the very first page, John Bemelmans Marciano has tried to stay true to a grandfather he never met in putting out the first all new "Madeline" adventure in nearly 50 years. 'Katherine Anne Porter,' edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue
This is the 186th volume in the Library of America series, the splendid publishing venture that makes classic and not-so-classic American authors available to the general reader. Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), who had opinions about everything, would undoubtedly be pleased to see her work appear in such a venue, but she would also no doubt bridle at having to be preceded by the likes of Philip K. Dick (no. 183), Dawn Powell (nos. 126/127), and H.P. Lovecraft (no. 155). 'The Irregulars' by Jennet Conant: wartime spy games in Washington
Reading The Irregulars, Jennet Conant's wonderfully rendered history of British spy jinks in Washington during World War II, left me with this regret: that Robert Altman, the great director of ensemble casts and vintage scenes, isn't still alive. 'In Hovering Flight' by Joyce Hinnefeld: Birds go from passion to mission
Listing the elements found in Joyce Hinnefeld's debut novel makes it sound deceptively trendy. There's a mother-daughter story, eco-terrorism, a strong women's friendship theme, autism and the terrorist attack on 9/11. But In Hovering Flight is more than that. It's rich in many ways, and its themes run deep. 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' by Stieg Larsson: Dark doings in the land of the midnight sun
Think of Sweden, and what comes to mind? Ikea and ABBA? Bikini-clad bombshells? Meatballs? Local and national best-sellers
This week's list of local best-sellers is from Borders, Preston Road at Royal Lane. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list. Authors touring the area this week
Jack Bunds will sign KillerBlind at 1 p.m. today at Borders, 3600 McKinney Ave. 09/27/2008Robert Wagner revisits past relationships in new autobiography, 'Pieces of My Heart' Espionage writer John Le Carré says the spy game has changed
LONDON – The spying game is not what it used to be. 09/25/2008'Pan's Labyrinth' director writing vampire trilogy
Pan's Labyrinth" director Guillermo del Toro is collaborating with crime author Chuck Hogan on a trilogy of vampire novels, starting next summer with "The Strain." NYC exhibit highlights 'Suite Francaise' author Nemirovsky
NEW YORK – When Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise was published in 2004, readers were captivated by the story of 1940s French life under German occupation. It was a story the author lived as she was writing it; Nemirovsky was arrested in 1942 and died at Auschwitz. 09/23/2008Robert Wagner reveals love affair with Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Wagner's marriage to Natalie Wood was known to all. His love affair with Barbara Stanwyck was a secret - until now. In his new memoir Pieces of My Heart, Wagner writes of his four-year romance with the star of such classics as Stella Dallas and Double Indemnity. 09/22/2008Restoring the legacy of Sammy Davis Jr.
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. – For all the grief that Sammy Davis Jr. took in life – remember the uproar over his embrace of Richard Nixon – he's getting it even worse in death. Reporter delivers a vivid account of life in Iraq in 'The Forever War'
While covering the Iraq War for The New York Times, Dexter Filkins has written remarkably intense reports from the midst of combat. His accounts of the battle for Falluja in 2004 will long be considered classics of war correspondence because of the vivid descriptions of the fighting and the courage of the reporter who wrote them. 09/21/2008'Twilight' fans flock to Forks, Wash., setting for vampire tales
FORKS, Wash. – Pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this timber town, where logging's decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment. Businesses shut down. Parts of the local high school were condemned. Families started to drift away. 'Indignation' by Philip Roth: Missteps at college and their tragic consequences
Philip Roth's provocative but flawed new novel brings his usual range of concerns: the close, sometimes suffocating bonds of family; the perpetual goad of lust; the terrors of mortality; the individual caught in the web of history; the meaning of Jewish identity. 'A Map of Home' by Randa Jarrar: Arab teen finds herself in Texas
A Map of Home promises to tell us about Arab culture as we never knew it. Children's authors, illustrators to appear at conference
Conference to focus 'Bitterly Divided' by David Williams: Civil War analysis
To anyone who has read little about the Civil War, this new volume by history professor David Williams seems to provide a penetrating analysis of the Confederacy in crisis. After only a few pages, one might wonder how the South sustained itself for four bloody years and endured so much, since, Mr. Williams avers, only a comparative handful of Southerners were supportive of what came to be called The Cause. Local and national best-sellers
This week's list of local best-sellers is from Jokae's African American Bookstore, 3223 Camp Wisdom Road. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list. 'Belo: From Newspapers to New Media' by Judith Garrett Segura
The story of Belo Corp., from its founding in Galveston in 1842 to today, is being told in Belo: From Newspapers to New Media. Authors touring the area this week
Jeff Pearlman will discuss and sign Boys Will Be Boys at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Borders, Preston Road at Royal Lane. 'American Lightning' by Howard Blum: Author revisits terrorist bombing in 1910 Los Angeles
Billy Burns could find Osama bin Laden. And solve the Kennedy murders. At least that's the impression we get reading American Lightning , Howard Blum's thumping-good drum roll of narrative history. Judy Alter's Texas Letters column
Robert Parker, best known as author of the Spenser mysteries, spoke at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth recently. He said he writes five pages in the morning and five in the afternoon and never rereads them again. He does no research, which leads me to believe he knows Boston like the back of is hand. 09/20/2008Kao Kalia Yang's 'The Latehomecomer' personalizes Hmong family's escape to the U.S.
As a child, Kao Kalia Yang immersed herself in books. She read about the Vietnamese, the Chinese and the Japanese, but she could never find books about the people she identified with best, the people of Hmong. Author James Crumley dies
HELENA, Mont. – Texas-born crime novelist James Crumley, whose hardened detectives worked cases in dingy Montana bars and other rough hangouts, died Wednesday after years of poor health. He was 68. Anthony Greer signing postponed; 'Story of Edgar Sawtelle' is Oprah pick
Anthony Greer book signing postponed 09/19/2008Racy Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano to read new 'Orange County' memoir at Borders
As the writer of the syndicated weekly column Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano is used to getting hate mail. Oprah picks 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle' as latest book club selection
Oprah Winfrey announced Friday she'd chosen David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle as her latest book club pick, calling the debut novel a classic and the "best novel I've read in a long, long, long time." 09/18/2008Bob Schieffer compiles TV essays into book
Like Walter Cronkite, the broadcast icon he idolized, Bob Schieffer has become a television presence whom millions feel they know and trust. 09/17/2008Teen novels coming about Carrie Bradshaw

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Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Carrie Bradshaw in New Line Cinema's Sex in the City

Meet Carrie Bradshaw, in her teenage years. Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell is writing a pair of teen novels, The Carrie Diaries that "takes readers back to Carrie Bradshaw's formative years in high school, giving an inside look at Carrie's friendships, romances and how she realized her dream of becoming a writer," HarperCollins announced Wednesday.
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Authors schedule area appearances 09/16/2008Tennis star Serena Williams to serve up memoir in 2009
A memoir by Serena Williams will be released in 2009 by Grand Central Publishing, which beat out a handful of other publishers bidding for the life story of the No. 1 ranked women's tennis player. Agatha Christie recordings recently discovered
Mystery writer Agatha Christie can be heard musing about the origins of Jane Marple, one of her best-loved heroines, on recently discovered recordings, her grandson said Monday. 09/15/2008Writer David Foster Wallace found dead at home
CLAREMONT, Calif. – David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest , was found dead in his home Friday, according to police. He was 46. 09/14/2008 Rosset, Kingston get book awards
Barney Rosset, the publisher and First Amendment defender whose battles on behalf of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and other explicit works helped overturn U.S. censorship laws, has won an honorary National Book Award for "outstanding service to the American literary community." Texas & Southwest books Philip Roth's new novel charts how social liberations have changed us
NEW YORK – Philip Roth may have become famous for the exuberant carnality of Portnoy's Complaint, but he still remembers a very different sexual America. 'Home' by Marilynne Robinson: A prodigal son returns in powerful parable of forgiveness
Four years ago, Marilynne Robinson published Gilead , one of the finer American novels of the past many years. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Its form is that of a long letter, 247 pages in print, that John Ames, an elderly and dying Congregationalist minister, is writing to his 7-year-old son, Robby. 'Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt' by Joyce Tyldesley: A bio that separates fact from fiction
Cleopatra has generated more fame (in poems, paintings, books, plays and films) per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt , "It is clearly never going to be possible to write a conventional biography of Cleopatra." So Dr. Tyldesley has gone ahead and written one. Local and national best-sellers
This week's list of local best-sellers is from Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2201 Preston Road, Plano. National best-sellers are from The New York Times. Parentheses indicate book's position last week; indicates first week on list. Authors touring the area this week
Junot Diaz will speak at 2 p.m. today at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St., as part of the Writers Studio. Tickets $20-$34 at the door. 'American Wife' by Curtis Sittenfeld: Author sharply skewers the first family
If you've ever wondered, while watching President Bush cavorting through the minefields of foreign policy and public opinion, "What must Laura be thinking?" novelist Curtis Sittenfeld has written the book for you. 09/13/2008Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz reflects on newfound fame
Junot Díaz has gotten a lot more popular lately, and he's not sure if he likes it. 09/12/2008Dallas Cowboys' Terrell Owens tells all (about fitness) in new book
If you can take your eyes off Terrell Owens' body, you might find yourself loving him for his mind. 09/11/2008'Fletch' author Gregory Mcdonald dies
Gregory Mcdonald, whose best-selling "Fletch" mystery books also were made into films, has died, according to his manager. He was 71. 09/08/2008'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim
A judge ruled Monday in favor of "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling in her copyright infringement lawsuit against a fan and Web site operator who was set to publish a Potter encyclopedia. Christopher Buckley, Richard Price among Texas Book Festival guests
The Texas Book Festival will bring its usual all-star literary lineup to Austin this fall, but with a special election-year twist.

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