Read Carlo Rotella’s “Profile” of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan” in The New Yorker. His profile of Massachusett’s Governor Patrick Deval previously appeared in Boston Magazine . His article, “The Genre Artist,” on science fiction writer Jack Vance, recently appeared in The New York Times Magazine.
Read a rave review of Vali Nasr’s Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What it will Mean for our World in The Sunday New York Times Book Review.
Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia has been named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. Previously, it was picked as one of only eleven books to be named by Amazon, Publisher’s Weekly, and The New York Times as one of the top 100 books of the year. Fordlandia was also a finalist for the 2009 National Book Awards in nonfiction and was selected in The New Yorker Reviewers’ Favorite of 2009.
Read a review of Susan Clancy’s The Trauma Myth: The Truth about Sexual Abuse of Children and It’s Aftermath in The New York Times.
Laney Salisbury’s Provenance: How A Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art has been named a finalist for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Fact Crime and one of twelve books chosen as an ALA Notable Book in nonfiction for 2009. Previously, her book was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Christian Science Monitor, was picked by Oprah Magazine as one of the “twenty five books you’ve got to read,” and was featured in a segment by Gayle King on Good Morning America.
Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work was named by Border’s Original Voices as the best book of 2009 in nonfiction. Previously the book was named one of only eleven books to be picked by Amazon and Publisher’s Weekly as one of the best books of the year and was cited by The New York Times as one of the top 100 books of the year.
Martha Nussbaum was featured in the December 13 edition of The New York Times Magazine, and named to Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list.
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, authors of Nudge, were listed seventh on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list.
Mario Livio’s Is God a Mathematician? was named one of the 2009’s best books by The Washington Post. The book was also selected as a 2009 Borders Original Voices Non-Fiction finalist.
Constantine Pleshakov’s There is No Freedom Without Bread: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought Down Communism was named one of the 2009’s best books by The Washington Post.
Karen Greenberg’s The Least Worst Place has been named one of 2009’s best books by the Washington Post and Slate.
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home has been named one of the ten best books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly.
Nate Silver was named by Time Magazine as one of the 2009 Time 100.
Elizabeth Warren, co-author (with Amelia Tyagi) of The Two Income Trap, was named by Time Magazine as one of the 2009 Time 100. Read her commentary in The Huffington Post on “America Without a Middle Class.”
William Hitchcock’sThe Bitter Road To Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe was named a finalist for Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category of Letter and Drama Prizes.
Erin Bried appeared on The Today Show and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to discuss How to Sew a Button. Her book is featured in Self Magazine, O magazine, Redbook, The Washington Post, New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, and The Chicago Sun-Times among many others.
Senator Joe Lieberman complained to The New York Times about Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, author of The Great Risk Shift and a forthcoming book on inequality (to be co-authored with Paul Pierson), crediting Hacker as “the man who created the public option.”
Josh Kosman’s The Buyout of America was listed as one of the books to read in the coming year by The New York Times blogger Barbara Taylor. Kosman was interviewed on Fresh Air by Terry Gross and in print at Time.com, and The Wall Street Journal. com. The book was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal and in The Times of London. Read his op-editorial on the candidacy of private equity king Stephen Pagliuca for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in The Boston Globe.
Jennette Fulda’s forthcoming Chocolate & Vicodin is featured in The Washington Post.
John Holdren, White House science czar, revealed in Foreign Policy that he is reading Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Unscientific America. Sheril has been named a science advisor to NPR’s Science Friday. Read Chris’s Washington Post op-ed.
Kathleen Horan was interviewed on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show and her book Relationship Obits: The Final Resting Place for Love Gone Wrong was featured in The Independent.
Read Kim Phillips-Fein’s cover article in The Nation. Her book, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan, was recommended by“Paperback Row” in the Sunday New York Times Book review.
Bruce Tulgan’s book, Not Everyone Gets a Trophy, was cited in Investors Business Daily.com in an article entitled “How to Manage Generation Y.”
Read Dalton Conley’s latest piece in The American Prospect.
Lucy Knisley’s French Milk has been featured in Boing Boing, USA Today, Salon.com, The Comics Reporter, and People magazine
Debby Applegate was interviewed in the January issue of The Writer Magazine about her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Henry Ward Beecher (”A ‘Crossover’ Success”). A Q&A with her agent, Susan Rabiner, appears in the same article.
Jeff Mac’s Manslations is featured on CNN.com, Seventeen Magazine and in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Stephanie Coontz’s op ed Till Children Do Us Part was the most e-mailed article in The New York Times.
Nicole J. Georges’ Calling Dr. Laura is showcased in the latest Publishers Weekly Comics Week and Bitch magazine wonders if the J in her name stands for “just lovely.”
Tom Chaffin appears on C-SPAN’s Book TV talking about his book: The H.L Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy.
Alan Kazin’s and Carlo Rotella’s newest parenting article, “Bullies: They Can be Stopped, But it Takes a Village,” can be found at Slate.com.
