Inside January's issue of BookPage

January 2003
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
January BookPage interviews:

Sherwin Nuland: A memoir of life with father

Throughout his childhood, Sherwin Nuland viewed his immigrant father through a prism of fear and embarrassment. Meyer Nudelman was never a violent man, according to his son, but he did have an unpredictable and volcanic temper. Moreover, he suffered from a progressively crippling disease that made it difficult for him to walk about his Bronx neighborhood without his self-conscious son at his elbow. This tense proximity was so emotionally wrenching, Nuland says, that he had to write his new memoir to finally come to terms with it.

Brian Hall: Re-imagining Lewis and Clark's expedition, through the eyes of five participants

Novelist Brian Hall was already "emotionally committed" to writing a novel about the Lewis and Clark expedition when the long shadow of Stephen Ambrose's magisterial history of the expedition, Undaunted Courage, fell across the landscape. "I was relieved to see that what seemed to interest him was not what interested me... I find fascinating the backside of the tapestry, where you see all the loose threads."

Former Army officer Brian Haig climbs the ranks of best-selling suspense writers

Author and independent publisher Steve Tiller claims it all started with his daughter's messy hair

Meet Robert Jordan

Meet Bernard Waber

FEATURES

SPOTLIGHT: Self-help books light the path to personal growth

New shaping up guides help create a fitter new you

FICTION

A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt

The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

Isn't It Romantic? by Ron Hansen

The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

A Memory of War by Frederick Busch

The Disapparation of James by Anne Ursu

Final Witness by Simon Tolkien