Books
Also of interest ... in screen celebrities 
How to Be a Movie Star by William J. Mann; I Am the New Black by Tracy Morgan; American Rebel by Marc Eliot; American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
'Going Rouge': A Sarah Palin parody book
What publishers of a book mimicking Palin's memoir hope to accomplish
Author of the week: Jeff Kinney
The author of the Wimpy Kid picture books has become a hero to the grammar school set, and parents love him for turning their children into readers.
Also of interest ... in books inspired by books
Anne Frank by Francine Prose; The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett; Good for the Jews by Debra Spark; Why This World by Benjamin Moser
Book of the week: The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
Crumb’s intensely physical style makes the "elemental conflicts" and passions in the stories of the book of Genesis palpable.
Logicomix written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; illustrated by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna
The quest for a logical foundation to mathematics is the subject of this "extraordinary" 350-page comic book and extraordinarily unlikely international best-seller.
Novel of the week: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem’s new novel occasionally offers a witty vision of New York and a “brilliant” evocation of contemporary alienation, but remains a disappointment overall.
Suzanne Somers’ controversial cancer advice
Why the actress' new book 'Knockout: Interviews With Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer' is causing a stir
Debunking SuperFreakonomics
Have contrarian authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner gone too far with their take on global warming?
Author of the week: David Benedictus
In the fully authorized sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh, In Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, David Benedictus has given Eeyore just enough spunk that the gloomy donkey no longer plays perpetual victim.
Also of interest ... titles in the news
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller; The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt; Lessons in Disaster by Gordon Goldstein; A Better War by Lewis Sorley
Book of the week: A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Readers who accept the challenge of pouring through the 200-plus essays in this 1,096-page book will be taken on an historical tour that is “richly surprising and consistently enlightening.”
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
The author of The Glass Castle has once again drawn on her family's hardscrabble history in West Texas and cast her grandmother's life story into a first-person account.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel's fresh take on Henry VIII’s decision to throw off his first wife for Anne Boleyn just won the Man Booker Prize for fiction.
Book of the week: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan, author of the “splendid” Vietnam War book A Bright Shining Lie, has spent the last 15 years researching how Bernard Schriever developed the long-range missile program that altered the shape of the Cold War.
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
Dickstein's essays on the movies, music, literature, and other cultural artifacts of the 1930s provide a sweeping and insightful narrative of the mind-set of Depression-era America.
Novel of the week: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The author of the “wildly successful” The Time Traveler’s Wife has just published a “deliciously creepy” new novel.
Author of the week: David Sibley
The “rock star” of American bird-watching has just released a book that he hopes will do for trees what The Sibley Guide to Birds did for the avian kingdom.
Also of interest ... in new memoirs
Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison; Speech-less by Matt Latimer; The Kids Are All Right by Diana, Liz, Amanda, and Dan Welch; City Boy by Edmund White
Did Herta Muller deserve the Nobel Prize?
Why a 'virtual unknown' won the coveted award for literature
