Dec 8, 2009

Things Noted Here & There

by Cliopatria

The Nonfiction list in"The 10 Best Books of 2009," NYT, 13 December, includes Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, David Finkel's The Good Soldiers, Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, Mary Karr's LIT: A Memoir, and Carol Sklenicka's Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life.

Caroline Weber,"Paris," NYT, 3 December, reviews Georges Duby and Guy Lobrichon, eds., History of Paris in Painting.

Megan Marshall,"Hey, Mr. Postman," Slate, 7 December, reviews Thomas Mallon's Yours Ever: People and Their Letters.

Crystal Downing and Reid Perkins-Buzo,"Silent Divas," Books & Culture, November/December, reviews Angela Dalle Vacche's Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema.

Kathryn Harrison,"The Symbologist," NYT, 3 December, reviews Carl G. Jung's The Red Book: Liber Novus.

David Lodge,"Shored Against His Ruins," Literary Review, December/January, reviews Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments.

Barry Gewen,"That Old Black Magic," NYT, 3 December, reviews Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger and Eric Davis, eds., The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer.