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May 3, 2007 · In Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, the British punk-rock expert chronicles the prehistory of the pop-culture construct "teenager," from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan to Leopold and Loeb.
May 3, 2007 · The latest from the Pulitzer-winning novelist is a "murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller," in the words of Publishers Weekly. It's a private-eye story set in a fictional community of Jewish exiles — "the frozen chosen" — displaced to a temporary settlement in Alaska by World War II.
May 2, 2007 · With his famous "slam dunk" comment about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, George Tenet helped shape the arguments that led the United States into the Iraq war. Now, in a new memoir, the former CIA chief tells his side of the story about events leading to September 11 and the war in Iraq.
May 2, 2007 · Elise Blackwell takes a gamble with her fine new novel, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish. Blackwell's writing is lovely, but flashbacks in the plot and an incomplete inclusion of Hurricane Katrina get in her way.
May 2, 2007 · John Ridley's comic-book series The American Way has just been collected into a graphic novel; it takes place in 1961, when the government has created a team of super-heroes to battle foreign super-villains. But it's all just a show created to pacify the public. Ridley previously wrote the screenplay for Three Kings and the novel A Conversation with the Mann.
May 2, 2007 · Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey's mix of black romance and intrigue has made him one of the most-read African American writers in the U.S. He talks to Farai Chideya about his latest thriller, Sleeping With Strangers, and how to satisfy readers' expectations and still keep them guessing.
April 30, 2007 · The former CBS co-anchor talks about her life-changing decision — choosing a double mastectomy over the possibility of breast cancer. Also, in her new book she confronts America's obsession with perfect parenthood. Web Extra: Read an Excerpt from Syler's Book
April 30, 2007 · In his book, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, former CIA director George Tenet defends himself and his agency against criticism stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks and flawed pre-war intelligence. Guests look at Tenet's claims and the counterclaims.
April 25, 2007 · "Thing" appears in Next Life, Rae Armantrout's new collection of poems. Armantrout has taught writing for almost 20 years at the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been praised for syntax that borders on everyday speech while grappling with questions of deception and distortion.
April 25, 2007 · Not every teen magazine was all about makeup and boys. To its readers, Sassy helped bring girl power to the mainstream. Writer Kara Jesella talks about the magazine's cult following and her new book, How Sassy Changed My Life.
April 24, 2007 · Tom Wright traveled as a road manager with the Rolling Stones, the Faces, the Who and other bands from the late '60s through the early '80s. But Wright is also a photographer — so while he was collecting indelible experiences in those decades, he was also collecting extraordinary images. Web Extra: See a Tom Wright slideshow
April 24, 2007 · Tiff Wood, who was profiled by David Halberstam for the book The Amateurs. At the time, Wood was a rower who aspired to compete in the 1984 Olympics. Wood looks back at the experience.
April 23, 2007 · Presidential historian Robert Dallek has written about LBJ, JFK, FDR and Ronald Reagan. Now, in his book Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, he tackles two political titans he describes as "self-serving characters with grandiose dreams of recasting world affairs."
April 23, 2007 · This untitled poem is from Ko Un's most recent book, Flowers of a Moment, translated by Brother Anthony of Taize, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach. Ko Un grew up in Korea during the Japanese Occupation. During the Korean War, he was conscripted by the People's Army. In 1952, he became a Buddhist and lived a monastic life for ten years.
April 23, 2007 · Novelist Joshua Ferris makes his debut with Then We Came to the End, a satire about life in a Chicago advertising agency. Ferris' short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Best New American Voices, and Prairie Schooner.
"The Road by Cormac McCarthy moved me deeply. Could be his best book."
From Jorey, who listens to KUAR in Little Rock, Ark.
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