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April 2008
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
April BookPage interviews:

Joanne Harris 'Chocolat' characters reunite in Paris

Mary Higgins Clark Queen of Suspense

Meg Wolitzer To work or not to work?

Reeve Lindbergh Aging well

Steve Coll Inside the Bin Laden family

Ann B. Ross Talking with the creator of Miss Julia

Arthur Geisert Meet the author-illustrator


FEATURES

David Baldacci True lies

Well Read Michael Chabon's defense of genre fiction

Behind the Book Recalling an African childhood

Earth Day Ideas for going green

Poetry Month Playing with words

Batter Up Swing into baseball season

Style Home improvement ideas


FICTION

Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler

Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch

Dictation by Cynthia Ozick

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Disagreement by Nick Taylor

Fall of Frost by Brian Hall

Playing with the Grown-ups by Sophie Dahl

River of Heaven by Lee Martin

Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA by Kris Radish

The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman

The Winding Ways Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

All Souls by Christine Schutt

The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell

Nice to Come Home To by Rebecca Flowers


Burning Questions
BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Jack Prelutsky Becoming a poet

Rhyming Fun Sharing the joy of verse with kids

The Seer of Shadows by Avi

The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry


NONFICTION

April 4, 1968 by Michael Eric Dyson

The Soiling of Old Glory by Louis P. Masur

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende

Home by Julie Andrews

Hats & Eyeglasses by Martha Frankel

The Translator by Daoud Hari

Armegeddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut

Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer

The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel

A Blue Hand by Deborah Baker

Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten by Gary W. Gallagher

The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

Sneaker Wars by Barbara Smit

Greetings from Bury Park by Sarfraz Manzoor

Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? by Ilana Kurshan


THE AUTHOR ENABLERS
A likely story

AUDIO
The spoken word Sukey's favorite audio books

WHODUNIT?
Crime across the Mason-Dixon line

BOOK CLUBS
New paperbacks for reading groups

ROMANCE
April, the coolest month?

COOKING
A tale of two cultures

Political Watch




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