Nonfiction News Archives

“It's like writing an essay, rather than a biography”

NEW YORK : As he prepared a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, author Peter Ackroyd read through more than 20 volumes of Poe's work and filled two file cabinet drawers with notes - more information than the most ... via International Herald Tribune

A list of books by William F. Buckley Jr., who died Wednesday at age 82: NONFICTION "God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom,'" Regnery, 1951. via The Detroit News

'Gov. Rick Perry's first book has debuted at No. 1 on the Washington Post's hardcover nonfiction Washington-area bestseller list. via KWTX

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts, must protect a hit man's intended victim. via The Taipei Times

“This is not a place you come to by accident”

Overcast skies didn't discourage a crowd of more than 300 from attending the stamp unveiling in Cross Creek, near Hawthorne, for noted Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. via Palatka Daily News

“Maybe not in the Maine woods, pal!”

By Carolyn See, who can be reached at www.carolynsee.com Friday, February 15, 2008; Page C07 NAKED IN THE WOODS Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery By Jim Motavalli Da Capo. via The Washington Post

Compiled by Shannon Maughan -- Publishers Weekly, 2/18/2008 Talkback Blogs Podcasts Photos ABINGDON Abingdon discovers Treasure Rock by Mary Lou Carney, in which a girl's mother tells her the family history of ... via Publishers' Weekly

“It's a fascinating story. It's been a passion project around here, something we've always had in mind.”

Lumberjacks make the cut for History Channel series February 18, 2008 Lumberjacks are the latest blue-collar professionals to get a close-up on TV. via Star-Gazette.COM

“Cork is one of the great cuisine and wine writers of our time. Especially his latest book, Eating on the Donner Pass, is close to a Pulitzer Prize.”

What makes this story even more fascinating is that Calista is clairvoyant and uses her powers in the search for the manuscript. via Publishers Marketplace Rights Board

Peter Carey, the two-time-Booker-prize-winning novelist, has a matchless imagination. via The Seattle Times

“I want people to understand just how important lighthouses were, are still today”

The nonfiction book targets children ages 9 and older. In addition to lighthouse history and science, the book contains 21 activities to do at home. via Press-Citizen

If you're planning on heading to the coast this weekend, here's something that you may be interested in attending . via Statesman Journal

“Wouldn't you be wasting a lot of film?”

Film In a Saigon meeting room, equal parts bordello foyer and job-placement service, a balding 38-year-old Singaporean takes his pick of potential brides: Vietnamese belles du jour selected by a matchmaker who ... via The Village Voice

“Bread and Roses"? BAKER: That was the first one to actually come out. The second was "Whaleship Disasters 1871”

Julie Baker recently took the New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Work of Children's Literature for "The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912." Baker, 40, also wrote "The Great Whaleship Disaster of 1871" ... via SeacoastOnline

Two voices of black literature in America are being heard once more. Richard Wright, whose Native Son and Black Boy are 20th century classics, and Richard Bruce Nugent, one of the founders of the Harlem ... via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

“The Florentine prosecutor, Luca Turco, has accused Mignini of being 'in thrall to a sort of delirium' in his handling of the Monster case, in which he fantasized amazing and complex Satanic conspiracies”

Doug Preston is only too familiar with Judge Giuliano Mignini, the pubblico ministero holding UW honor student Amanda Knox, her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede as suspects in the Nov. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“It was my childhood. You don't know it's strange”

The Delivery Man," by Joe McGinniss Jr. , is about a college student who returns home to Las Vegas and is drawn into a childhood friend's teenage call girl service. via Las Vegas Review Journal

“Due to the highly secret nature of their work, there are no photos of current Delta Force operators in this book.”

Whoo! I'd hate to miss the 2nd annual Nonfiction Monday. Especially since I am drooling all over the new series Special Ops from Bearport Publishing. via School Library Journal

The one topic that prompts more email than any other on this site is finding the theme of a book . via About.com

School librarians often tell me they don't read a lot of nonfiction--it's not a pleasure that many of you look forward to. via School Library Journal

Opens 7 p.m. Friday, continues 7 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays through Feb. via The Oregonian