Inside this month's issue of BookPage

October 1999
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
The October BookPage interviews:

At work and at play with Neil Simon: A Memoir: The Play Goes On

Winston S. Churchill delivers his grandfather's account: The Great Republic: A History of America

Scott Turow goes undercover in life and law: Personal Injuries

Catherine Lanigan's fiction with vision: Wings of Destiny

John Bemelmans Marciano completes his grandfather's manuscript: Madeline in America

Meet the Author: Charles Osgood

Meet the Kids' Author: Arlene Alda

BookPage's own Magic 8-Ball answers all

FICTION

Mystery is Served:

Stone Quarry by S. J. Rozan

Shooting at Midnight by Greg Rucka

Nightbird by Edward Dee

In The Twisted Root by Anne Perry

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

Eddie's Bastard by William Kowalski

Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen

The Looking Glass by Richard Paul Evans

Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

"O" Is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton

Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson

A Spring of Souls by William Cobb

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley

The Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Boo! Did we scare you?

A Beasty Story by Bill Martin Jr.

The Gargoyle on the Roof by Jack Prelutsky

The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories edited by Dennis Pepper

The Nightmare Hour by R.L. Stine

Teen Read Week, October 17 - 23

The Edge by Ben Bo

The Baboon King by Anton Quintana

There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around by Vivian Vande Velde

Rewind by William Sleator

Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer

In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke

We Goddesses by Doris Orgel

Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones

Behind the Wheel by Janet S. Wong

Tribute to Shel Silverstein

The Giving Tree Anniversary Edition by Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

A Child's Calendar by John Updike

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Rolie Polie Olie by William Joyce

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Tracking futures

Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market by James K. Glassman and Kevin A. Hassett

Dow 100,000: Fact or Fiction by Charles W. Kadlec

World Boom Ahead: Why Business and Consumers Will Prosper by Knight Kiplinger

The Long Boom: A History of the World's Future, 1980-2020 by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden, and Joel Hyatt

The Brand You 50 by Tom Peters

The Projects 50 by Tom Peters

The Professional Service Firm 50 by Tom Peters

A Sportsman's Life: How I Built Orvis by Mixing Business and Sport by Leigh Perkins

The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones

FEATURES

Gift Gallery: Lifestyles of the musical and famous

Famous Name Finder by Coral Amende

Novels into Film

The Oxford Children's Book of Famous People

100 Best Album Covers by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell

Cajun and Creole Music Makers by Barry Jean Ancelet

Seaports of the South by Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Cooking: Best bites

The Best American Recipes 1999: The Year's Top 100 from Books, Magazines, Newspapers, and the Internet edited by Fran McCullough and Suzanne Hamlin

The Best of Craig Claiborne: More Than 1000 Recipes from His Cooking Columns in The New York Times by Craig Claiborne, edited by Joan Whitman

Hors D'Oeuvres by Eric Treuille and Victoria Blashford-Snell

AUDIO

The Spoken Word: Savvy science, notable novels, mischievous memoirs

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick

Old Man in a Baseball Cap by Fred Rochlin

Heartwood by James Lee Burke

A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just

Gloria! I Just Kept Hoping by Gloria Stuart with Sylvia Thompson

Sea Change by James Powlik

NONFICTION

A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government by Garry Wills

Autobiography
Aretha: From These Roots by Aretha Franklin and David Ritz

Biography
Carl Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone
Eisenhower by Geoffrey Perret
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

Essays
More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike

History
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by James P. Delgado
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
Little Bighorn Remembered: The Untold Story of Custer's Last Stand by Herman J. Viola

Journalism
Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists: The Newseum's Most Intriguing Newspeople edited by Eric Newton

Medicine
Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing by Larry Dossey

Memoir
My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir by Betty Fussell
'Tis by Frank McCourt
The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper by Dominick Dunne

Movies
O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors edited by Luc Sante and Melissa Holbrook Pierson

New and Good
The Hungry Years: America in an Age of Crisis, 1929-1939 by T.H. Watkins

Sports
A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s by Roger Kahn

Technology
High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning by John Naisbitt with Nana Naisbitt and Douglas Philips
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor by Tim Berners-Lee

Travel
River Horse: A Voyage Across America by William Least Heat-Moon

ROMANCE

Love Exciting and New: Abs, sins make the heart grow fonder

Golden Girl by Joan Wolf

Baby Love by Catherine Anderson

Stolen Wishes by Deb Stover

The Moonstone by Claire Cross

Naughty, Naughty by Susan Johnson, Adrianne Lee, Leandra Logan, and Anne Marie Winston