Feature: The Early Word: New and Notable Books
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of December 1, 2008— Cornwell, Jance, Elizabeth Peters, Steve Berry, Beedle the Bard, Tila Tequila, Yes They Did, Rise of the Rich, Talkin' 'Bout Boys - Yea Yea Boys...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 24, 2008— Calvin Trillin, Dean Koontz, Clive Cussler, Jim Butcher, Belva Plain, New Benet's, Tovey Cats, Dilgo Khyentse, Alison Goodman, Sheri Reynolds, End Of The World, Ma!
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 17, 2008— Gladwell on how we succeed; Leary on Why We Suck. Also: Lincoln, Huckabee, "Magic" Johnson, Jonas Bros, James Patterson, Higgins Clark, P.D. James, Dickey...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 10, 2008— Stephen King, Lincoln, Toni Morrison, Glenn Beck, Artie Lange, Wally Lamb, Paul Simon, Churchill, Evel Knievel, Sinatra, Card, Deaver, Bolaño, Watchmen, Andrew Jackson...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of November 3, 2008— Send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille: Ackroyd covers the waterfront, Brands on FDR. Also: Foxworthy, Naipaul, Bond, Brando, Baldacci, Robb, Warrick Dunn...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of October 27, 2008— Rock bios: Lennon and Cobain; Presidential politics: Obama, Kennedy, and Lincoln; History: Irish Americans, Pearl Harbor, Loot!; Fiction: DeMille, Steel, Perry, Truman, Dickey, Butcher...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of October 20, 2008— Robert B. Parker, Jonathan Kellerman, John Updike, Vince Flynn, Iris Johansen, Anita Shreve, Kelley Armstrong, Chagall, Eminem, John Grogan, Ancient Egypt, Star Wars...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 13, 2008— Abe Lincoln, Emily Post, Descartes, Versailles, The NSA, Intellectual Devotional, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Tony Curtis, George Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of October 6, 2008— Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcella Hazan, John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution, the Hunt for Bin Laden...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 29, 2008— Buffett, Branson, Prince, Noonan, Mourning, Adams, Orbinski, Holocaust, Dog Talk, Jacksonians, Gravity, Confederacy, Philosophies, 'Philanthrocapitalism'...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 22, 2008— Summer simmered to an autumnal lull, a calm before the norm: Bill O'Reilly, Maya Angelou, David Letterman, Robert Wagner, Jon Katz, Alec Baldwin...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 15, 2008— Lynne Spears, Howard Blum, Bernard-Henri Levy, West Point, Acedia, True Crime, Nathan Hale, Cheney Vice Presidency, Rwandan Genocide, History of Publishing, Bill Clinton, ‘Funding Fathers’...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of September 8, 2008— Bob Schieffer, Bob Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Reagan's Hollywood Years, The Audacity of Obama, Baron de Steuben, John Tyler, Cheryl Jarvis' The Necklace...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 25, 2008— Steve McQueen: "He's Young, He's Sexy, He's Hot, and He's Dead"
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of August 18, 2008— Power Limits, Progressive Power, Blue Dixie States, Heretics, Bookmakers, Rose Bowl Memoir, Radical Change, Tech's Transformation...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of August 4, 2008— Freddoso's case against Obama, Frank on "How Conservatives Rule." Also: Kate Brennan, Run Simmons, Sherman's March, Iwo Jima, the "First Act of Nuclear Terrorism."
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of July 28, 2008— What I talk about when I talk about waiters, group conflict, interfaith understanding, Stalin's secretariat, and Ol' Sparky...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction for the Week of July 21, 2008— Janis Ian, A New Zealand Story, The Rise and Fall of IG Farben, Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization, Mao's Last Dancer...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of July 14, 2008— Madonna: Ciccone rivalry rears an ugly read, Notes of an American Tomato Farmer, Lang Lang's 'Story,' 'Lessons' from Ward Connerly, Research Design, Web Tools...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of July 07, 2008— The CIA, Ballroom Dancing, Black Religion, Dana and Christopher Reeve, L. M. Montgomery, Ben J. Wattenberg, Julia Reed, "Bloody Mary"...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of June 30, 2008— Old Blood and Guts, The Olympics That Changed the World, The Dancer Within, The Simple Life, Sichan Siv...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books for the Week of June 23, 2008— Barbara Ehrenreich, Dick Morris, Louis XIV, Stuntmen, Lee Morgan, Tomboys, Hidden Codes, Evolution, Old Beijing, Forgers, Dancers, Elephants...
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction For the Week of June 9, 2008— Doris Day, Kathryn Harrison, Pete Sampras, Grandmaster Flash, Karl Rove, Douglas J. Preston, Oscar de la Hoya, Glenn Gould, Meredith Norton, and Peter M. Senge.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of June 2, 2008— The summer reading season is here, and The Early Word is here to steer you in the right direction.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of February 17, 2008— Deepak Chopra, Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb, Lisa Scottoline, Michael Palmer, Elizabeth Moon, Jacqueline Winspear...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of February 10, 2008— Benazir Bhutto, Susan Jacoby's Age of American Unreason, Michael Scheuer's Marching Toward Hell; Grimes, Higgins, Toltz, McDaniel, Millhauser, Divakaruni, Baxter, Berenson...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 27, 2008— FICTION: Grisham, Krentz, Banks; All Shall Be Well, And All Shall Be Well, And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well. NONFICTION: Stranger than Fiction.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 20, 2008— Kinsella, King, Cornwell, Delinsky, Martin, Lescroart, Schwartz; plus the Race Card, the Electronic Mob, Reflections on Hillary Clinton, Predictions from the Experts...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 13, 2008— Stephen King, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Newt Gingrich, Tom Cruise, Stuart Woods, Delinsky, Bernhardt, Cornwell, Corporate Whistleblower, Whyte, Bush Tragedy...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of January 6, 2008— Roddy Doyle, Janet Evanovich, Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, Madeleine Albright and Bill Woodward's Memo to the President-Elect, Kelly Corrigan, Bernhard Schlink, Sue Miller...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of December 23, 2007— It's uncanny: On Christmas morning you can tell a book by its cover. Bookstores have new gifts this week. Be canny and make an exchange.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Weeks Of December 9 & 16, 2007— Condoleezza Rice, George H.W. Bush, Steve Berry, Cecelia Ahern, J.D. Robb, Chris Ware, Tao Te Ching, World War II, Why Women Wear What They Wear...
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 25, 2007— Satiety’s just a page away: Koontz, Buchanan, Gabaldon, Dietz, Enright, Sandra Brown, George R.R. Martin, David Drake... 'Tis just as good to get.
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 18, 2007— Steve Martin, Glenn Beck. Plus Anna Quindlen writes a 'Good Dog. Who Is Probably Still Staying. That's How Good He Is. Book.'
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 11, 2007— This week featuring "The Letters of Noel Coward: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck."
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The Early Word: New Books For The Week Of November 4, 2007— Lou Dobbs, 'Best Music Writing', Brokaw, Borat, Baldacci, Cussler, Iles, Frank McCourt, J.D. Robb, Raymond Chandler, Kenneth R. Timmerman, Joe McCarthy, NYSE, Mitfords, Robot Love...
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The Early Word - Nonfiction: New Books For The Week Of October 28, 2007— American Creation, Onion's Atlas, Ronnie Wood, Beatles' Second Album, Gerald Ford, Steve Irwin, Gram Parsons, Umberto Eco, Bette Davis, Once Upon A, Umm...
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The Early Word - Fiction: New Books For The Week Of October 28, 2007— Steel, Vince Flynn, Karon, Woodiwiss, Barker, Bradford, Chabon, Card, Foster, Ha Jin, Hoeg, Patterson, Truman, Anne Perry, Suzanne Brockmann, A Family Christmas...
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The Early Word - Fiction: New Books for the Week of October 14, 2007— Nick Hornby, Iris Johansen, Tom Perrotta, Robert Pinsky poetry, Samet's Soldier's Heart, Kevin J. Anderson, Joe Hill, William Trevor, some Star Wars book...
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The Early Word - Non-Fiction: New Books for the Week of October 14, 2007— Sacks, Slash, Stalin, Schulz and Peanuts, Churchill, Alice Roosevelt, Alex Ross, Ralph Lauren, Amy Grant, The Portable Atheist, The Donald, The Toothpick, Naughty Things...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of October 7, 2007— I hope Rosie O'Donnell used a fact-checker for her memoir. I wouldn't trust her with the truth even about her own life.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 30, 2007— Clarence Thomas, Susan Faludi, Tom Petty, Ann Coulter, Nureyev, Elliott Smith, Jimmy Carter, John Hart, Dog Whisperer, Rick Atkinson, Natalee Holloway, Gossip Girl...
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The Early World: New Books for the Week of September 23, 2007— Grisham, Sparks, Russo, Patchett, Vachss, Stuart Woods, Rita Mae Brown, Jenny Downham, Jim Shepard, Charlaine Harris, Vixen Diaries, Life with Asperger's, Boring People...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of September 9, 2007— Garrison Keillor, James Patterson, Laura Ingraham, John Berger, John W. Dean, I Did It: Confessions of the Killer. Plus: Don't wear white...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 26, 2007— Pattie Boyd's life with George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Plus: Katie Couric, Kathy Reichs, Terry Brooks, Christine Feehan, Diana Gabaldon, Harlan Coben, William Bernhardt...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 19, 2007— Michael Korda likes Ike, Diane Mott Davidson serves up more food for thought, plus: Amy Bloom, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Raymond Khoury, and Joseph Finder...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 12, 2007— Sandra Brown, Suzanne Brockmann, John McCain, Obama, A Young POW's Story, Michael Schumacher, and then some... Okay, so I exaggerate for effect...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of August 5, 2007— Grisham, Gibson, Kellerman, Sparks, Stephenie Meyer, Alexander McCall Smith, gold-diggers, historical turning points in Britain and Russia, and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of July 29, 2007— Dyer, Turtledove, McCaffrey, Alan Alda, and then some... then again, move it along, nothin' to see here, move it along...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of July 15, 2007— Harry who? Plus: James Lee Burke, Deveraux, Rendell, Linda Howard, Saul, Luanne Rice, Jonis Agee, Stephen Hunter, and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of July 8, 2007— Ridley Pearson, Nora Roberts, Dragonlance, John Twelve Hawks, James Blake, Taylor Hicks, Robert Novak, Tarsha Jones, Lee Vance, Cherry Adair...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of June 24, 2007— Danielle Steele, W.E.B. Griffin, Lisa See, Stephen L. Carter, Greenwald on Bush, Marx Brothers, Sex and Love and that guy from Korn...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of June 10, 2007— Brown on Di, Dillard, Bachman RIP, BTK, Archer, Aaron, Maupin, Catherine Coulter, Johanna Lindsey, Martin Cruz Smith, Lincoln, Great Depression, and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of June 3, 2007— McEwan, Brashares, Clinton, Ondaatje, Hamilton, Parker, Lustbader, Cussler, Pentagon, Diana, Spector: "...my heart stood still/ Dead doo ron ron ron, dead doo ron ron…"
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 20, 2007— Connelly, Reagan, Gore, Hosseini, Eisler, Evans, History's Most Desired Baseball Card, Dinner with Dad, People Get Screwed All the Time, Know What I Mean?
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of May 6, 2007— Elmore Leonard, James Patterson, Rebecca Stott, Haruki Murakami, Penny Vincenzi, Dead CEOs, Sex, Pain, Madness and the Devil in the Kitchen...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 29— Tenet, Zevon, Nicklaus, Einstein, Kingsolver, Chabon, McGreevey, Dale Brown, Elizabeth Berg, Punk Rock Dad, Weird Virginia, Bastards of the Party, and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 15, 2007— Tolkein, Bernard Goldberg, Crazies and Wimps, the other Higgins Clark, "Galveston oh Galveston..." and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 8, 2007— Einstein with his memories in a trunk, Iggy's lust for life; Anne Perry, Karen Robards, Stuart Woods, Edith Wharton, and then some.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of April 1, 2007— New Mary Higgins Clark and ol' time Revelations, the Rise of Fear 'n' Loathing and the Fall of the Roman Empire, and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 25, 2007— Gone with the Beatles, Bradley, Flawless, Feist, Frauds, Hoag, Hart, Spies, Sins, Satan, Sunday, Singing Cowboys, Kellerman's and Robards' Obsession, and then some....
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 18, 2007— Sandford, Joshua Ferris, DeLay, Religious Literacy, Cultural Amnesia, the Cigarette Century, Cigars and Clinton, and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of March 11, 2007— Spring forward, fall behind: Forget sleep - you've lost an hour of reading. Some quick considerations include Perry, Lethem, Salvatore, Arendt, Riefenstahl, Chagall.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 25, 2007— T. Jefferson Parker, Crais, Vollman, Dr. Dre, Hitler's Headquarters, Forensic Files, Kinsella, Weir, Marley. But wait, there's more...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 19, 2007— Cook's new book, Robb on the jobb, a new spin on Finn, Rice on ice, Bush comes to shove. You kids get off my lawn!
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 12, 2007— From Smiley to Steele, the Civil War to the Cold War - it's quality of books over quantity of titles this week.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 5, 2007— Parker, Greeley, Delinsky, Dexter, Earle, Frayn, Chalmers Johnson, Peggy Orenstein, Still Life with Husband, The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 29, 2007— It’s Oprah’s world - you’re just reading books in it. This time Oprah's Book Club required reading is a new edition of Sidney Poitier’s memoir.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 22, 2007— Bookstore-bound: Paul Auster, Norman Mailer, Phillip K. Dick, Jayne Ann Krentz, Bernard Cornwell, Terry McAuliffe, and then some...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 15, 2007— Upcoming: Amis, Grimes, D'Souza, Fairstein, Kellerman, Moore, Boeing, India, the Underground Railroad, Moore - and more...
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 9, 2007— Coming up: Ehrenreich, Evanovich, Obama, Jance, Dancing in the Streets, gumshoes and gurus, lunacy and lust, Robert Stone and RN Patterson.
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The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 1— For those bound and determined to exchange those indeterminately-given gifts, there are a few notable books for consideration. A very few.
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The Early Word: New Art and Photography Books (in Song)— Monkeys, Manet, Mars, Doodles, Dogs, Deadwood, Anime, Addams, Abstract Art Theft, Born to Gauguin, Leibowitz, Secrets, Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles & Scrawls.
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The Early Word: New Non-Fiction Books (an O.J.-Free Zone)— New Books of Note: Disney, Carnegie, Hughes, Mandela, Bryson, Powell, Ghost Maps, Lincoln, Reagan, Kagan, Truth, Home, Worldchanging...
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The Early Word: Calendars - Far Side is Back! Stitch 'n' Bitch, Retro Lemony, Ying-Yang, Miro Miro, Bice Bice Bo Bice, Speed! Lust! Madness! Hey Lady!— The Salvador Dali Engagement Calendar: Because you can’t always rely on the persistence of your memory.
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The Early Word: New And Upcoming Children's Books, Plus One $150 Doorstop— Lynne Cheney, in Our 50 States: A Family Adventure, takes us on a tour of America's greatest Undisclosed Locations.
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The Early Word: King, Koontz, Connelly, Harris, Hiaasen, Hillerman, Steel, Sparks... Snicket!— New Books of Note: The stacks of blockbusters you'll be tripping over in the bookstores this shopping season.
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The Early Word: Lehane, Francis, Le Carre, McCarthy, Frazier— It’s beginning to look a lot like crowed aisles in the bookstores this holiday season.
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