list http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/default.htm USATODAY.com Books - Top Stories (USA TODAY) en-us Copyright 2008, USATODAY.com, USA TODAY Tue, 13 May 2008 08:33:14 GMT 142 18 http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/default.htm http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/usatodaycom_135x20.gif http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/289091789/2008-05-12-james-frey_N.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 01:38:44 GMT James Frey's sprawling novel, Bright Shiny Morning, published Tuesday, is set in Los Angeles. But the author, best known as the ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=1IAzht"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=1IAzht" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/289091789" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-12-james-frey_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/289091790/2008-05-12-celeb-memoirs_N.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 12:31:13 GMT It's celebrity season at the bookstore. USA TODAY checks out what five stars have to say about everything from getting older ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=Ny8oEn"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=Ny8oEn" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/289091790" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-05-12-celeb-memoirs_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/288370333/2008-05-11-billionaires-vinegar_N.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 22:08:28 GMT In vino veritas? Patooie. Fakery born of greed has infested the wine trade pretty much since the first grapes were fermented. ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=AkqNPL"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=AkqNPL" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/288370333" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-05-11-billionaires-vinegar_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/288718986/2008-05-12-nuala-ofaolain-obit_N.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 18:09:07 GMT Nuala O'Faolain a journalist and feminist who gained international fame with her outspoken 1996 memoir Are You Somebody? has ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=n9Sld5"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=n9Sld5" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/288718986" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-05-12-nuala-ofaolain-obit_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/285756521/2008-05-07-china_N.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 18:28:01 GMT Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China proves the adage that if you really want to learn a foreign language, fall in love ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=mhUnzf"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=mhUnzf" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/285756521" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-05-07-china_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/287017169/2008-05-09-seuss-christian_N.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 18:27:18 GMT When Horton Hears a Who, is there a sermon to be heard? When Horton's world of Who-ville was "saved by the Smallest of All," ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=ZhCvGB"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=ZhCvGB" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/287017169" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-05-09-seuss-christian_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/285765629/2008-05-07-dysfunction_N.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 02:55:13 GMT It's fitting that Theresa Rebeck's Three Girls and Their Brother opens with a photo shoot. <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=1hVq1f"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=1hVq1f" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/285765629" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-05-07-dysfunction_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/285756523/2008-05-07-buffett_N.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 00:52:45 GMT Jimmy Buffett, grand potentate of the Parrotheads, has a new novel, Swine Not? A Novel Pig Tale (Little, Brown, $21.99). He spoke ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=uAhtl5"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=uAhtl5" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/285756523" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-07-buffett_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/285756525/2008-05-07-book-buzz_N.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 00:44:40 GMT A spate of fake memoirs (Margaret B. Jones, James Frey) doesn't seem to have hurt Augusten Burroughs. His 2002 best-selling Running ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=BUZKBf"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=BUZKBf" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/285756525" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-07-book-buzz_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/285756527/2008-05-07-roundup-nonfiction_N.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 12:55:10 GMT The hamburger as an American icon that changed the world? Josh Ozersky, the online food editor for New York magazine, makes ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=zyRAqc"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=zyRAqc" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/285756527" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-05-07-roundup-nonfiction_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/284317967/2008-05-05-the-host_N.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 12:02:57 GMT Stephenie Meyer, reigning queen of young-adult novels about teenage vampires, turns her gaze skyward in her first adult novel, ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=IQ3qt5"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=IQ3qt5" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/284317967" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-05-05-the-host_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/284317968/2008-05-05-comfort_N.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 12:03:55 GMT Weeks shy of turning 50, Gus Simpson is tired of being as the self-help books would call her a woman who does too much. <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=G2vhJh"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=G2vhJh" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/284317968" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-05-05-comfort_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/284317969/2008-05-05-frances-richey_N.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 12:05:04 GMT Frances Richey knows she is one of the fortunate ones. "I lived with the constant fear that my son would never come home," says ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=Trq25L"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=Trq25L" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/284317969" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-05-frances-richey_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/284317970/2008-05-05-mary-tillman_N.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 01:27:04 GMT If Mary Tillman had her way, this conversation would not be taking place. After her son, Pat who after 9/11 famously gave up ... <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=Ezo7pB"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=Ezo7pB" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/284317970" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-05-mary-tillman_N.htm?csp=34 http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~3/284240519/2008-05-05-ted-key_N.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 22:42:49 GMT Cartoonist Ted Key, whose comic strip Hazel about a bossy maid went from magazine page to TV screen, has died. He was 95. <p><a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?a=S4ziA0"><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~a/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories?i=S4ziA0" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomBooks-TopStories/~4/284240519" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-05-05-ted-key_N.htm?csp=34