Sarah Vowell, author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot and Assassination Vacation, has new book coming out. The Wordy Shipmates is a history of the Puritans, those pinched Protestants whose quirks haunt us to this day, says Vowell.The Wordy Shipmates will be released October 7. You can get a preview in this article by Vowell in … Continue reading Buy a Vowell
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From the Rumor Mill
Temple Grandin has a new book coming out. But it's not with a big publisher and there's not a lot of pre-publication buzz happening yet. In fact, all I've managed to find so far is this press release, posted on a not-particularly-bookish blog. There's no information on the website of the publisher, Future Horizons.So it … Continue reading From the Rumor Mill
The Secret Is (Coming) Out
Bob Woodward's fourth book about the Bush administration will be released September 8. The title was a big secret; Simon & Schuster's own website still lists the book as only " Untitled on Bush, Volume IV" as I write this. But now we know the name: The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008.The … Continue reading The Secret Is (Coming) Out
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