BNA_Daily | July 14, 2010
Facebook: a do-gooder’s attempt to better the world, or a threat to personal privacy? In The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, author David Kirkpatrick, a former technology editor at Fortune, delves into the company’s history and discusses the implications of such a widespread phenomenon. According to New [...]
BNA_Daily | June 24, 2010
Christopher Hitchens–outspoken journalist, political activist, essayist, and author of God is Not Great–refuses to be pinned down on one side of the political spectrum, and the Los Angeles Times calls his byline “the most archly kinetic in current-day American letters.” In Hitch-22: A Memoir, Hitchens discusses the life events that got him to his current [...]
BNA_Daily | April 15, 2010
She reaches 7 million viewers a day and is one of the most recognizable women in the world, but what do we really know about Oprah Winfrey? Throughout her 24-year career as host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah has opened up about challenges she faced in the past, such as extreme poverty and sexual [...]
BNA_Daily | March 18, 2010
If you’ve turned on the financial news or watched Jon Stewart in the last couple weeks, chances are you’ve heard of The Big Short, the latest Wall-Street expose by Liar’s Poker author Michael Lewis. In The Big Short, Lewis profiles a handful of investors who foresaw the 2008 economic crisis and made millions betting against [...]
BNA_Daily | February 19, 2010
If you haven’t read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks yet (it’s only been out for 2 weeks), you probably will soon. In this nonfiction merger between history, science, race relations, and bioethics, Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American mother of 5 who died of cervical cancer in 1951. The thing [...]
BNA_Daily | January 28, 2010
In addition to sparking the English Reformation, Henry VIII provided some of the 16th century’s hottest gossip, with Anne Boleyn at its center. Experts have long disagreed about the real reasons behind Anne Boleyn’s execution, and historian Alison Weir attempts to uncover the truth in her new book The Lady in the Tower: The Fall [...]
BNA_Daily | July 23, 2009
In The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, Richard Holmes proves that science and the arts walked hand in hand from 1770 - 1830, when the curiosity of the Romantic age led to one scientific breakthrough after another. The book follows the lives of scientists and explorers [...]
BNA_Editor | May 1, 2009
This week at Books & Authors we’re spanning the globe with news involving the PEN World Voices Festival, President Obama, and pigs everywhere. If you’d like a reprieve from the dire news of the auto industry and growing need for Purell, take a look at the links below for some literary light.
Jay McInerney has been [...]
BNA_Editor | April 28, 2009
Here at Books & Authors, we spend most of our time huddled on couches or comfy chairs, reading our weekly fix of genre fiction and heartbreaking works of nonfiction (honestly, if anyone can recommend a nice nonfiction work that won’t bum us out, please share). The rest of our time we spend online, searching for [...]
BNA_Editor | January 27, 2009
If you haven’t already heard, the world lost one of its true literary giants today when John Updike, the poet laureate of suburban American angst, died at the age of seventy-six from lung cancer. It’s hard to imagine a more profoundly prolific American author and, if you haven’t already encountered Updike’s Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the [...]
