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INTRODUCING THE GARNER REPORT | PAGE 1, 2
S E P T E M B E R _ N O N F I C T I O N : Aczel, Amir: "Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe" (Harcourt Brace). Not a nut; author of "Fermat's Last Theorem." Aldrich, Marcia: "Girl Rearing: A Memoir of a Girlhood Gone Astray." (Norton). Catalog boasts, "In the tradition of 'The Liar's Club'" Alvarez, Julia: "Something to Declare" (Algonquin). Personal essays. Aronowitz, Stanley: "From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future" (Houghton Mifflin). By unrepentant New Leftist. Barrett, Nina: "The Girls: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship (Simon & Schuster). Friends since 1950s, comparing lives. Bennett, Steve: "The Plugged-In Parents" (Times). Kids and technology. Berg, A. Scott: "Lindberg" (Putnam). Big bio from acclaimed biographer of Maxwell Perkins. Block, Herbert: "Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life" (Times). Legendary Washington Post cartoonist's memoir. Boorstin, Daniel: "The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World" (Random House). From Aristotle to Einstein. Browning, Frank: "Apples" (North Point). A cultural history of the fruit from Kentucky farmer/NPR correspondent. Bush, George and Brent Scowcroft: "A World Transformed" (Knopf). On the fall of communism, Bush's legacy, etc. Calasso, Roberto: "Ka" (Knopf). On birth and mythology of India. Caron, Anne: "Mothers and Daughters: Searching for New Connections." (Holt) Enough said. Chan, Jackie: "I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action" (Ballantine) Memoir by the amazing Hong Kong actor/stunt man. Cohen, Roger: "Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo" (Random House). Dornenberg, Andrew and Karen Page: "Dining Out" (Wiley). Restaurant critics spill the beans; interviews with N.Y. Times critic Ruth Reichl et al. Douglas, Ellen: "Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell" (Algonquin). White family, slave owners. Egan, Timothy: "Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West" (Knopf). History and travelogue. Eliot, Marc: "To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles" (Little, Brown). Unpromising rockumentary from author of lame book about Springsteen. Farrell, Amy Erdman: "Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism" (North Carolina University). Ferguson, Niall: "The House of Rothschild" (Viking). More on the banking dynasty. Field, Genevieve and Rufus Griscom: "Nerve: Literate Smut" (Broadway). Paperback original, the best of the erotic Web zine, including arty nude photos and essays by Rick Moody, Sallie Tisdale, John Perry Barlow, Catherine Texier and others. Finz, Iris and Steve (editors): "Erotic Confessions: Real People Talk About Putting the Spark Back in Their Sex" (St. Martin's). Maybe they could start by bookmarking Nerve. Freidlander, Lee: "American Musicians" (DAP). Photos. Gershenfeld, Neil: "When Things Start to Think" (Holt). Digital intelligence. Giddons, Gary: "Visions of Jazz: The First Century" (Oxford). By Village Voice critic. Glatt, John: "The Royal House of Monaco" (St. Martin's). Scandal, etc. Goodrich, Chris: "Roadster: How, and Especially Why, a Mechanical Novice Built a Car from a Kit" (HarperCollins). Gourevitch, Philip: "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" (FSG). The African holocaust, by a New Yorker correspondent. Hart, Claudia: "A Child's Machiavelli" (Viking). "A primer on power: A really naughty back-to-school book for adults." Healey, Jane M.: "Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds -- for Better and Worse" (Simon & Schuster). Hirschberg, Lynn: "Art and Commerce: The New Entrepreneurs" (Miramax). Profiles of young media power brokers! Hirschman, Linda: "Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex" (Oxford). "Complete analysis of power in sexual relationships." But nothing about Bill and Monica. Hobsbawm, Eric: "Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz" (New Press). Hochschild, Adam: "King Leopold's Ghost: The Plunder of the Congo and the 20th Century's First Great International Human Rights Movement" (Houghton Mifflin). Elegantly written historical muckraking by the co-founder of Mother Jones magazine. Hoelterhoff, Manuela: "Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli" (Knopf) Holroyd, Michael: "Bernard Shaw" (Random House). One-volume abridgment of acclaimed bio. Jennings, Jean (editor) : "Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings" (Atlantic Monthly). From Jack Kerouac to Dave Barry. Jong, Erica: "What Do Women Want? Bread, Roses, Sex, Power" (HarperCollins). Essays & musings by the aging randy feminist. Kaplan, Robert D.: "An Empire Wilderness: Discovering the New America" (Random House). Depressed Atlantic Monthly foreign correspondent, whose last books cried that the world was going to hell in a handbasket, comes home. Karabell, Zachary: "What's College For? The Struggle to Define American Higher Education" (Basic). Stay tuned for Karabell's thunderbolt cover story in Salon's new campus department, Ivory Tower, debuting Sept. 14. Kevles, Daniel: "The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character" (Norton). Scientist accused of plagiarism tells his side of the story; excerpted in the New Yorker. Kincaid, Jamaica: "My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on Plants They Love" (FSG). Former New Yorker writer -- and Tina Brown hater -- turns to more edenic subject after last year's wrenching family memoir. Kohn, Howard: "We Had a Dream: A Tale of the Struggles for Integration in America" (Simon & Schuster). Respected Rolling Stone investigative reporter ("Who Killed Karen Silkwood?") examines the lives of black and white residents of Maryland's Prince George's County, a supposed model for racial integration that falls short of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream. Kornbluh, Peter (editor): "Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report" (New Press). Krementz, Jill: "The Jewish Writer" (Holt). Another literary photo book by the wife of Kurt Vonnegut. Leguizamo, John: "Freak" (Riverhead). From the comedian's Off-Broadway show. Liman, Arthur L.: "Lawyer: A Life of Cases, Counsel and Controversy" (Public Affairs). Posthumous memoir by the attorney for the Iran-contra congressional panel. MacArthur, Brian (editor): "Requiem: Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997" (Arcade). Essays from Ted Hughes, Maya Angelou and other luminaries. Martin, Steve: "Pure Drivel" (Hyperion). New Yorker pieces, mostly. Martinez, Gerald (editor): "What It Is ... What It Was: The Black Film Explosion of the '70s in Words and Pictures" (Miramax). Mate, Ferenc: "The Hills of Tuscany" (Norton). Jaded New Yorkers move to Italy to find beauty and harmony. Maynard, Joyce: "At Home in the World" (Picador USA). Kiss-and-tell memoir about her teenage fling with cradle-robbing recluse J.D. Salinger. McCrum, Robert: "My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke" (Norton). Memoir by former Faber publisher. Medved, Diane and Michael: "Saving Childhood: How To Protect Your Children Against the National Assault on Innocence" (HarperCollins). Conservative ninnies. Miniter, Richard: "The Things I Want Most" (Bantam). Parents looking to provide home for abused children. Mondavi, Robert: "Harvests of Joy: My Life, My Way" (Harcourt Brace). California wine mogul's family memoir. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick: "Secrecy: The American Experience" (Yale). O'Rourke, P.J.: "Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics" (Atlantic Monthly). More crotchety humor from Rolling Stone's house conservative. Ortega, Bob: "In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart Is Devouring America" (Times Books). Owen, David: "Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof" (Villard). Paris Review: "Beat Writers at Work" (Modern Library). Rick Moody intro. Patten, Christopher: "East and West: China, Power and the Future of Asia" (Times). Polemic by last British governor of Hong Kong got a PR boost when Rupert Murdoch canceled Patten's HarperCollins contract, kowtowing to Chinese Communists. Pettinger, Peter: "Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings" (Yale). Study of jazz pianist. Pierce-Baker, Charlotte (editor): "Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape" (Norton). Pinsky, Robert: "The Sounds of Poetry" (FSG). By America's poet laureate. Pyne, Stephen J.: "How the Canyon Became Grand" (Viking). Quindlen, Anna: "How Reading Changed My Life" (Ballantine/Library of Contemporary Thought). Former New York Times columnist, on the topic that everyone's writing about these days. Reed, Lou: "Pass Through Fire: The Collected Lyrics" (Hyperion). Save your money for the box set. Renahan, Edward: "The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War" (Oxford). Reynolds, Simon: "Generation Ecstasy" (Little, Brown). Rock critic on rave culture. Roberts, Paul William: "The Demonic Comedy: Some Detours in the Bagdad of Saddam Hussein" (FSG). Robinson, Marilynne: "The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought" (Houghton Mifflin). From "Housekeeping" author. Rothenberg, Daniel: "With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today" (Harcourt Brace). Sanders, Scott Russell: "Hunting for Hope" (Beacon). Author's biking trip with troubled son. Santiago, Esmerelda: "Almost a Woman" (Perseus). Memoir, follow-up to "When I Was Puerto Rican." Shlain, Leonard: "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" (Viking) A neurosurgeon on how the development of alphabetic literacy reinforced the (masculine) left brain at the expense of the (feminine) right. Slater, Lauren: "Prozac Diary" (Random House). Beautifully written and dreamy memoir, little in common with Elizabeth Wurtzel's effort. Slick, Grace: "Somebody to Love? A Rock and Roll Memoir" (Warner). By one of the great voices of '60s rock 'n' roll, the beautiful, tough-talking front woman for "The Jefferson Airplane." Spence, Garry: "Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the 21st Century" (St. Martin's). The celebrity cowboy lawyer rides again. Spence, Jonathan D.: "The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds" (Norton). Starr, Douglas: "Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce" (Knopf). On the history of blood as commerce. Steel, Danielle: "His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina" (Delacourt) Memoir about her son, a drug-tormented, struggling rock musician. Stepto, Robert: "Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography" (Beacon). Memoir from Yale Afro-American studies prof, on family history, etc. Sterling, William and Stephen Waite: "Boomernomics: Technology, Globalization and the Future of Your Money in the Upcoming Generational Warfare" (Ballantine/Library of Contemporary Thought). Stevens, Mitchell: "The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word" (Oxford). Professor on why the "triumph of the image" is good for us. Suberman, Stella: "The Jew Store" (Algonquin). Memoir, family dry goods store in South, called "the Jew store." Tobias, Andrew: "The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up" (Random House ). Biz writer, author of classic gay memoir (under pseudonym), delivers follow-up. Turk, Jon: "Cold Oceans: Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat and Canoe" (HarperCollins).In the wake of "Perfect Storm" and "Into Thin Air," more explornography. Vachon, Christine with David Edelstein: "Shooting to Kill: How an Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies That Matter" (Avon). Verghese, Abraham: "The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss" (HarperCollins) New Yorker writer's memoir. Westheimer, Ruth: "Grandparenthood" (Routledge) Dr. Ruth acts her age. Wieseltier, Leon: "Kaddish" (Knopf) New Republic's aging bad-boy literary editor mourns the death of his father and reflects on the meanings of mourning. Winchester, Simon: "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary" (HarperCollins). Fascinating tale of a quirky episode in intellectual history.
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