More than 16 years after the death of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, we have a new book about her much-studied, much-written- about life. William Kuhn, with at least the blessing of publisher Nan Talese, with whom Jackie worked at Doubleday, has titled his book: "Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books. Her autobiography.
Consider the Countess de Castiglione. Born in 1837 in Florence, Italy, she was blessed with legendary beauty and a seductive lure that won the ardor of heads of heads of state and artists alike. She was Napoleon's mistress for a time, and she was the subject of countless paintings, sculptures and later photographs. In a sense, she was one of the first fashion models, dressing up for photographs as a princess, a nun, Shakespearean characters and even posing covered by nothing but a sheet - a scandalous move at the time. Such was her fame during the 19th century that she's still known today. She also is one of the many wondrous, delightful individuals, objects and ideas that populate a new book by Sargentville journalist and author Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, "The Encyclopedia of the Exquisit...
Amin Jaafari is a naturalized Arab citizen of Israel and a respected surgeon. He is talking with a colleague when the walls of the hospital are shaken by an explosion. They know what has happened, but details don't emerge until later: a suicide bomber at a fast-food restaurant, at least 19 dead, including 11 schoolchildren celebrating a classmate's birthday. Jaafari works until 10 that night treating the injured and gets home after being stopped and searched by police on the way by 11. His wife has not returned from visiting her grandmother. Exhausted, he showers, takes a sleeping pill and climbs into bed. Then, just as he's about to fall asleep, the phone rings, and Jaafari is summoned back to the hospital.
In his homage to the literary life, the books Pat Conroy honors become characters as vivid and influential as the flesh-and-blood teacher, friends and family who introduced him to them. My Reading Life" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $25) is a small autobiography by the author of "The Great Santini," "The Lords of Discipline," "The Prince of Tides," "Beach Music" and last year's "South of Broad.
Prosecutors charged only Green, though they lacked physical evidence pointing to his guilt. Their only witnesses were victims of the gang's other stickups and Green's plea-bargaining co-conspirators - men with incentive to obscure their own involvement in the crime. Green's court-appointed attorney was an admitted heavy drinker whose only previous capital case was an infamous 1992 "sleeping lawyer" trial. Of the droopy-eyed defense for accused murderer George McFarland in that case, Judge Doug Shaver - who also presided over Green's trial- said, "The Constitution says everyone's entitled to the lawyer of their choice. ... The Constitution doesn't say the lawyer has to be awake. I'd initially thought that [Thomas Cahill Nan A. Talese]'s labeling of Green as a saint was metaphorical, a w...
Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser, Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 328 pages ($28.95). She first saw him "across a crowded room" at a restaurant. He was having lunch with Donald Pleasence and Robert Shaw, whose play "The Man in the Glass Booth" he would direct Pleasence in. She was ogling -- and appraising the way women sometimes do. To her companion -- who fancied red-haired Shaw -- she said, "I'll take the dark one. She was 42, a historical novelist and sometime book reviewer happily married to a Conservative MP since 1945. She was also the mother of six children. He was 44, unhappily married to "celebrated actress" Vivien Merchant and the father of one. He was also one of the English-speaking world's greatest and most truly celebrated playwrights -- a pri...
Solar" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 287 pages, $26.95), by Ian McEwan It is difficult to like Michael Beard, a physicist whose work exploring the nature of light once earned him a Nobel Prize, but who now lends his name to letterheads and honorary university posts.
No, Americans don't mind being lied to at all. We're used to it. Sure, some people out there may honestly believe that Brad and Angie aren't "involved" -- even though Brad has adopted Angie's children and they're having a baby of their own -- or that The Da Vinci Code represents a serious theological discussion. But these are a minority, I expect; most of us are fully aware that we're lied to constantly. And most would agree with the Times' Frank Rich when he says, "No one except pesky nitpickers much cares whether Mr. [James Frey]'s autobiography is true." As Frey's former editor Nan Talese remarks, "We aren't talking about weapons of mass destruction here. You'll forgive me for saying that the accuracy of [Scott McClellan]'s statement depends entirely on what kind of life you have --...
Poe: A Life Cut Short. By Peter Ackroyd. Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday. 224 pages. $21.95. Nearly 160 years after his miserable life ended, Edgar Allan Poe's imagination is still beating strong beneath the floorboards of American culture. The NFL's Baltimore Ravens are named for his naysaying bird, and an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants" paid homage to his "Tell-Tale Heart.
Amin Jaafari is an Arab surgeon, an Israeli citizen living in Tel Aviv. He is successful, wealthy, assimilated, married to Sihem, a beautiful loving wife. In the course of his work, he saves the lives of people who have been injured in suicide bombings. One night, after an attack that has killed a group of children celebrating a birthday, his wife is among the dead; he is told that she was the bomber. Jaafari's disbelief, his interrogation by the police, his humiliation and physical abuse at the hands of his neighbors, and his gradual discovery of the truth and his subsequent descent into rage, despair and self-pity is the plot of The Attack (Nan A. Talese, $18.95, 257 pages) the new novel by Yasmina Khadra, author of "The Swallows of Kabul.
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