Archive for the ‘Under the Radar’ Category

Under the Radar: Wives Are All the Rage

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

Under the Radar: New and Classic Fiction with a Sense of Humor

Sunday, May 1st, 2011
  • Douglas Adams–The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • Kingsley Amis–Lucky Jim
  • Nick Bantock – Griffin and Sabine
  • Jasper Fforde–One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Thursday Next series)
  • Rebecca Hunt–Mr. Chartwell
  • John Irving–The World According to Garp
  • Jerome K. Jerome–Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Mat Johnson–Pym: A Novel
  • Garrison Keillor–Lake Wobegon Days
  • Alexander McCall Smith–The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series)
  • P.G. Sturges–Shortcut Man
  • John Kennedy Toole–A Confederacy of Dunces
  • Kurt Vonnegut–While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
  • P.G. Wodehouse–Psmith

Under the Radar: Yummy Buzz—New Nonfiction Foodie Titles

Sunday, April 24th, 2011
  • Lisa Abend—The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adria’s el Bulli
  • Grant Achatz—Life, on the Line: A Chef’s Story of Chasing Greatness
  • Annia Ciezadlo—Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
  • Gabrielle Hamilton—Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
  • Ben Ryder Howe—My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store
  • Aki Kamozawa—Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work
  • Graham Kerr—Growing at the Speed of Life
  • John F. Mariani and Lidia Bastianich—How Italian Food Conquered the World
  • Geneen Roth—Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money

Under the Radar: Earth Day 2011 — New Environmental Titles

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

Under the Radar: Epistolary Fiction and Nonfiction

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

Under the Radar: New Poetry Titles

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
  • Kim Addonizio–Lucifer at the Starlite
  • Julie Carr–Sarah: Of Fragments and Lines
  • Billy Collins–Horoscopes for the Dead
  • Nick Flynn–The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
  • Jennifer Grotz–The Needle
  • L.S. Klatt–Cloud of Ink
  • Nick Lantz–We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
  • Dorianne Laux–The Book of Men
  • Les Murray–Taller When Prone
  • Amy Nezhukumatahil–Lucky Fish
  • Travis Nichols–See Me Improving
  • Christian Riman–Every Riven Thing

Under the Radar: Blog-Worthy New Nonfiction

Sunday, March 27th, 2011
  • Elisabeth Tova Bailey–The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
  • Alain de Botton–A Week at the Airport
  • Edmund de Waal–The Hare with Amber Eyes
  • Gail Caldwell–Let’s Take the Long Way Home
  • Paul Clemens–Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant
  • Deborah Fallows–Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
  • Joshua Foer–Moonwalking with Einstein
  • Anand Giridharadas–India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking
  • David Grann–The Lost City of Z
  • Stephanie Staal–Reading Women
  • Stephan Talty–Escape from the Land of Snows
  • Xinran–Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

Under the Radar: NEW Historical Fiction for Women’s History Month

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

Under the Radar: It’s a Wide World: Novels in Translation

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Under the Radar: Recent Nonfiction for Book Clubs

Sunday, March 6th, 2011