FIRST PERSON
October BookPage interviews:

John Berendt: Following the stories of Venice's most colorful characters

Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich takes a look at white-collar unemployment

Stephenie Meyer: Vampire dreams inspire a teen novel to sink your teeth into

Julia Scheeres on surviving an evangelical childhood

Chick lit author Jennifer Weiner creates an engaging whodunit

Meet Alexandra Day

Meet Neil Gaiman

FEATURES

Billy Crystal remembers his 1950s childhood

The Great Quake: Two books relive one of America's most famous natural disasters

Christian Fiction: Charting new horizons

Well Read: E.L. Doctorow re-imagines Sherman's legendary march to the sea

In cooking, Mark Bittman keeps it simple

New graphic novels and manga explore the darker side of comics

FICTION

The Divide by Nicholas Evans

The Great Stink by Clare Clark

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey

The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue

Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel

Birdwing by Rafe Martin

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

NONFICTION

Memoir
Coming Home To Myself by Wynonna Judd
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

Biography
Lovesick Blues by Paul Hemphill
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills

Literature
Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak