http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/?track=rss Headlines from Newsday.com en ©2009, Newsday.com Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:53:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-lijoy2112986635jul20,0,6696275.column?track=rss The auditorium of Bay Shore High School was standing room only. Among the guests lucky enough to score a special green ticket - promising a Bay Shore variation of the venerable Irish blessing, "Where the Sea Breezes Are Always At Your Back" - were the local monsignor and a group of Hibernians. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:53:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-etmccourt2012985414jul19,0,5675293.story?track=rss Frank McCourt, who won a Pulitzer Prize and international acclaim for his first book, the autobiographical "Angela's Ashes," published when the author was in his mid-60s, died Sunday in Manhattan. Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:43:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bktalk1912948673jul16,0,3169993.story?track=rss Correspondent for The Atlantic and author of a 2002 report on the obesity epidemic ("The Hungry Gene"), Ellen Ruppel Shell explores complicated issues by delving into their history, putting them in a broad social context and delivering the occasional zingy one-liner. "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" (Penguin Press, $22.95), for example, warns us that "sometimes what looks like a bargain is really just a bad loan." Shell's hard-hitting new book catalogs the consequences of low, low prices: poor-quality merchandise, limited shopping choices, underpaid workers with reduced security, jobs shipped overseas, imported food contaminated with bacteria and factory-farmed fish prone to disease, to name just a few. Her exposé is all the more persuasive because, as she frankly admitted in a recent conversation with Newsday, she is not immune to the temptation to "drive five miles out of your way to save a buck on a six-pack of beer." Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:33:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkwaters1912932706jul16,0,311664.story?track=rss THE FAVORITES, by Mary Yukari Waters. Scribner, 279 pp., $25. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:33:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkend1912952372jul16,0,423191.story?track=rss DOWN AROUND MIDNIGHT: A Memoir of Crash and Survival, by Robert Sabbag. Viking, 216 pp., $25.95. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:33:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkint1212946671jul10,0,1986865.story?track=rss Former Newsday editor Peter Terzian's two loves, literature and music, are married in a lovely ceremony of sorts -- his new anthology, "Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives" (Harper Perennial, $14.99 paper). It's a marriage made in eclecticism -- as the assembled contemporary authors explore everything from "Meet the Beatles!" to Gloria Estefan's "Mi Tierra" to the soundtrack for something titled "Topless Women Talk About Their Lives." Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:59:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkali1212856224jul09,0,7969026.story?track=rss IN THE KITCHEN, by Monica Ali. Scribner, 436 pages, $26.99 Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:13:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bklipman1212805655jul09,0,2033980.story?track=rss THE FAMILY MAN, by Elinor Lipman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 305 pp., $25. Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:13:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkend1212839562jul09,0,4753168.story?track=rss THE SERVANTS' QUARTERS, by Lynn Freed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 256 pp., $24. Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:13:00 -0400 http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bkend0512918024jul02,0,1214210.story?track=rss Pop one of these audio books in the car to make any road trip this summer a family pleasure. Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:33:00 -0400