| Lifestyle Books What constitutes a lifestyle book? It's the kind of book that helps you engage in hobbies, in curiosities, in hyper-specific interests or interests. These are nonfiction books that can be narrative (though often they are not). Lifestyle nonfiction offers up a wide range of interesting books that don't always fit neatly under the umbrella of popular nonfiction-though, of course, some of them do become quite popular. Books like these also offer a diverse and inclusive range of voices and experiences, making for a great reading or browsing experience, even if the topic at hand is not necessarily something you might take off the page. Scratch your itch for learning, growth, and fun this winter and check out these titles |
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| Books on the Air An overview of talked-about books and authors. This weekly update, published every Friday, provides descriptions of recent TV and radio appearances by authors and their recently released books. See the hot titles from the media this week. |
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| Russell Banks Russell Banks, whose vivid portrayals of working-class Americans grappling with issues of poverty, race and class placed him among the first ranks of contemporary novelists, died on Sunday at his home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He was 82. His literary agent, Ellen Levine, said the cause was cancer. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, and raised in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Banks was a self-styled heir to such 19th century writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman, aspiring to high art and a deep grasp of the country's spirit. Check out his books here. |
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| Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves-Russell Banks
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