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March 2006
This month, Joan Didion and John Updike will read poetry to you
All you have to do is sign up for Poem-a-Day, and we’ll send you a FREE poem by e-mail every day during National Poetry Month.
Now, with over 30,000 subscribers, 2006 marks the eighth anniversary of our program, and to celebrate we’ve added podcasts—iPoetry for your iPod! Find out more and check out the poetry we’ve mailed so far.
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Being Julia Child
My Life in France, the new memoir by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme (Julia’s husband Paul Child’s grandnephew) is the story of Julia’s life in France and the many pleasures she found in life and food. It is filled with the beautiful black-and-white photographs as well as family snapshots.
Read Alex Prud’homme’s foreward about how this book came to be published after Julia’s passing in 2004, and check out an essay by her editor Judith Jones about making Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Then, order your copy here.
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Layoffs: What are the consequences?
From the award-winning New York Times economics writer Louis Uchitelle comes The Disposable American, an eye-opening account of layoffs in America—their questionable necessity, their overuse, and their devastating impact on individuals at all income levels. Read the author’s Timeline of the Rise and Fall of Layoffs in American. You might be surprised.
Plus:
Chapter 1: The Stanley Works
Author Q&A: Uchitelle on the real effects of layoffs
New York Times Feature: “Retraining Laid-Off Workers, but for What?”
Get your copy: Click here to buy now!
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Book clubs are reading Magical Thinking
The new audio book club on Slate has made their first pick The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s National Book Award winning search for answers—and for relief—after her husband’s death, and NYTimes.com readers chose it as well. If your book club is planning to read this book together, be sure to download and print the FREE reading group guide.
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The 2nd Annual Tournament of Books
Hosted by Knopf’s own Kevin Guilfoile, The Tournament of Books over at The Morning News pits 16 novels against each other, all competing for the chance to be crowned the best book of 2005. This time around, the judges have included No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro in the fun. Find out more, and download the most literary brackets around.
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THE DEAD FISH MUSEUM
by Charles D'Ambrosio
The High Divide
At the Home I'd get up early, when the Sisters were still asleep, and head to the ancient Chinese man's store. The ancient Chinese man was a brown, knotted, shriveled man who looked like a chunk of gingerroot and ran one of those tiny stores that sells grapefruits, wine, and toilet paper, and no one can ever figure out how they survive. But he survived, he figured it out. His ancient Chinese wife was a little twig of a woman who sat in a chair and never said a word. He spoke only enough English to conduct business, to say hello and goodbye, to make change, although every morning, when I came for my grapefruit, I tried to teach him some useful vocabulary.
Keep reading this excerpt, and check out more excerpts from new novels.
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