author website, Cabinet Magazine author website, Ruth Kassinger Sensory psychologist and author of WHAT THE NOSE KNOWS: The Science of I bring them to you, dressed smartly in a red cocktail dress with red heels. Documentary filmmaker and author of the critically-acclaimed VISIT SUNNY CHERNOBYL: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places (Rodale). Amanda Smyth I tell my husband that I am "fixing my face." in which Cilley helps hundreds of thousands of her fans combat Jennifer Laughran—agent, Andrea Brown Literary Agency Sara Knight—senior editor, Simon & Schuster. I am wearing a suit, but a casual one, because I am high enough up on the totem pole that I don't have a whole lot to prove to anyone. Holding the pink receiver in my hand, I breathe out. "Are you hung over?" Does this book contain inappropriate content? Brian has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and was recognized by Medill School of Journalism's John Bartlow Martin awards for public interest journalism. My neighbors are alcoholic old ladies and crackheads, so I call my friend Jill. There are video cameras everywhere, monitored by skinny mustachioed men. author website, Taras Is it some creature from the depths? author website, Daniel ConnollyJournalist and author of THE BOOK OF ISAIAS: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America (St. Martin's). We meet Lola's mother, Nan, a fading beauty now dependent on her hairdresser for companionship, and Lola's thrice-divorced father, Fred, with his cigars and cheese-only diet and ongoing search for true love. In six dazzling stories spanning a decade, Lola Wilkerson mends a broken heart and meets Emmett Chase, navigating elopement, motherhood and lingering questions about who she wants to be when she grows up. AMANDA EYRE WARD is the author of three novels: To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. author website, Elizabeth Dowling Taylor I can make myself stop looking at the sorrowful place in the corner of my eye. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. author website, Mira Jacob Author of GOOD TALK: A Memoir in Conversations (One World), a finalist for the National Critics Circle Book Award; one of the top non-fiction titles of 2019 (according to the New York Times, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Library Journal, and others); and longlisted for the 2020 PEN American Award. Poole . Palfrey's research and teaching focus on new media and learning. GrescoeAward-winning journalist and social critic. Not much, it seems. "Why can't you be proud of yourself?" In another, Lola becomes an oil wife in Saudi Arabia, where her growing fears of terrorism are leavened by thoughts of motherhood. Ward New York Times' best-selling Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. They clap and cheer. Journalist for Time, The Atlantic, and Esquire, Poole is the author of two sports biographies: THE GALLOPING GHOST: Red Grange, An American Football Legend (Houghton Mifflin), and PacMan: Behind the Scenes with Manny Pacquiao (Da Capo). Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2010. "There was a guy there who had been in a terrible accident. Science journalist and author of PHYSICS ON THE FRINGE: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything (Walker & Company), among others. I want to know more about her. God knows what's under that cap. Asian Business Correspondent for Time Magazine. author website, Suzanne MustacichAuthor of THIRSTY DRAGON: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines (Henry Holt) and a contributing editor at Wine Spectator. "I am an artist," I tell her. I know that morning will come, I will wake, and I will have somewhere to go. I knew it was going to be short stories which is not my favorite thing, but none of the stories really held my interest the way her other books have. idea tossed out during an editorial meeting at the magazine. Jacob is also a literary novelist of the critically-acclaimed debut THE SLEEPWALKER'S GUIDE TO DANCING (Random House). author website, RJ Young I pick up my phone, which is Avon-lady pink. He has his chin in the palm of his hand, and his eyes are vacant. A science writer whose work has appeared in Discover, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian, The New York Times, Health, and Real Simple, Freinkel is the author of PLASTIC: A Toxic Love Story (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and AMERICAN CHESTNUT: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree (University of California Press). New York Times' best-selling author, one of the world's most renowned primatologists, and one of Time Magazine's Most Influential People. Historian and author of Pulitzer Prize finalist BROTHERS AT ARMS: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It (Knopf) and MEASURE OF THE EARTH: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World (Basic). Waal author website, Brian (Bantam), and DARWIN'S CATHEDRAL: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Author of GLASS HOUSE: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (St. Martin's), THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US: Love, Sex and the Science of Attraction (co-written with Larry Young, PhD), among others. IN DARKNESS BY TROUBLED AMERICANS (Knopf), a collection of humor pieces author website, Avery Instead, I sip from my husband's cup. New York Times' best-selling author of THE ORIGINAL BLACK ELITE: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era (Amistad) and A SLAVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Paul Jennings and the Madisons (Palgrave). A shock runs through me, the kind I've read about in Elle Magazine. "Where are you all from?" You look at me for a long moment. author website, Guru Madhavan "Be right back," I promise, poutily. Joseph warns. Author of the New York Times' Notable Book THE DISTANCE TO THE MOON and Harper's contributor, anthropologist and social critic. Harrah's casino is enormous, filled with rows of slot machines at which downtrodden people perch, holding dirty plastic buckets of quarters. You are winning. I serve wine and margaritas, Cosmopolitans and Cokes, beer and whiskey. Cabinet is a non-profit quarterly dedicated to creating a new culture of curiosity about the world and has been described by The New York Times author website, Andrew Potter Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2010. a 19th Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry (Crown); and NO MAN'S Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? The prose is spartan. Marjorie Agosín (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Susana Aikin (Agent: Jeff Ourvan) Sara Alexander (Agent: Jeff Ourvan) Estate of Isaac Babel (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Amy Quan Barry (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Bruce Bauman (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Helen Benedict (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Ross Benjamin (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Tonya Bolden (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Estate of Heinrich Böll (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Carmen Boullosa (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Brandon Brown (Agent: Jennifer Lyons) Jeremy Brown (Agent: Jennife… He goes to work before I am finished, leaving his coffee cup half-full on the mantle. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. and the last in the trilogy, THE WEIGHT OF MEMORY. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. ; THE BONOBO AND THE ATHEIST: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Norton); and OUR INNER APE, among others. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Well worth the read. Something went wrong. Back at the "hit me" table, you are looking fine. author website, Larry Young, PhD DINNER series. O'Connor is a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism whose reporting has appeared in Foreign Policy, Slate, Global Post, Wall Street Journal and NPR, among others. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. A. Talese Books/Doubleday) and THE CUBAN PROSPECT (Overlook). author website, James I want to say something, but I do not. Whether in San Francisco, Houston or Savannah, Ward's characters search for the place where they truly belong. My hair is swept up, and sometimes I wear a big red hibiscus bloom behind my ear. from McSweeney's. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Science journalist and author of GENIUS AT PLAY: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway and KING OF INFINITE SPACE: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry (Walker). Although exp is pref'd, I have landed the Avon job, and am ready to make $$$$$. The second half was so, so intriguing. He has been calling me at work, crying, saying he can't hack it, he isn't an artist after all, he can't even get a job waiting tables, he's a failure. author website. Author of SHANGHAI GRAND: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World; STRAPHANGER: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile; BOTTOMFEEDER: author website, M. R. O'ConnorAuthor of WAYFINDING: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World and RESURRECTION SCIENCE: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things (St. Martin's). My co-driver picks me up (he arrives with a rumble and a short, horn blast, which would piss off my neighbors were they not on crack) very early in the morning, say four-thirty. author website. Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2013. "Hey sport," says Don. Thrilling news: Amanda Eyre Ward's The Jetsetters is Reese's Book Club Pick! I loved the author's sense of humor and even the saddest stories were contained some irony. fiction, Paddock is the author of the acclaimed A SECRET WORD, which Jay Do you detect a pattern here? I think of my husband, happy in his boring bank teller job. Books) grew out of a whimsical Society. It paid off - the quality here is much more in line with her best novel than any of her other work. Brian Alexander A specialist in defense and national security, Hodge is the author of ARMED HUMANITARIANS: The Rise of Nation Builders and co-author (with Sharon Weinberger) of A NUCLEAR FAMILY VACATION (Bloomsbury). CollinsPaul Collins is a writer specializing in history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. 2012 . Japan! The swamp smells salty and thick, and it fills our mouths. It's on me.". I do not smear my lips with a melted stick of Blistex and call it a day! New Jersey!" I know that I should take you to your suite, tuck you in, and tend to you, Renaldo. Larry Young is one of the world's leading experts in the field of social behavioral neuroscience and the author of THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US: Love, Sex and the Science of Attraction, co-written with Brian Alexander (Current/Penguin). I enjoyed her description of Saudi as much as I enjoyed her description of Africa in her novel, Forgive Me. Casino/Gaming Journalist and author of BREAKING AND ENTERING: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien" and EPIC MEASURES: One Doctor, Seven Billion Patients and GROWING A GARDEN CITY. If I, like my husband, sat at home all day in a dirty terrycloth robe, reading the paper and calling out to muses that never answer. Staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. "You are an artist," I tell him. THE EARTH MOVED and FROM THE GROUND UP. Wertheim has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, TLS and many others. and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers (Algonquin). My shift ends at midnight, and I take a final look at you. as "voracious, omnivorous, and playful." author website. author website, Rebecca Kauffman Your hand takes my hand (the one not holding the drink tray), and you press something cold into my palm. Don wears a denim suit as well. I ask. He has also published three other books on African American history, including MAKING ROOTS, WHY BUSING FAILED, and THE NICEST KIDS IN TOWN.