HOLIDAY 2013 YZ It Seems That from Carmichael’S First Day, the Cultural and Economic Pundits Agreed That Enterprises Like Ours Were Doomed

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HOLIDAY 2013 YZ It seems that from Carmichael’s first day, the cultural and economic pundits agreed that enterprises like ours were doomed. In the 1970s, malls were going to eliminate locally-owned and run stores. Next it was WalMart and “big box” retailers that would make us unneces- sary. Then the internet arrived, and the wise men said no one would ever darken our door again. Missing in all of these predictions was the fact that people would do what they want to do. They would shop where they liked to shop and where they were treated with attention and respect and warmth. So when customers ask us, and they do so frequently, “How do you guys compete so successfully? Why is your business better year after year?” the answer is pretty simple. We pay little attention to our “competitors” and focus all of our energies on our customers, on treating them exactly like we would want to be treated in a store. After all, if you are going to make the effort to come into our store, by golly we’re going to do our darndest to make you happy, and hope you return. So Carmichael’s chugs on into our 37th year, like the Little Engine—but it is only because we have a band of loyal and supportive customers that have pushed and pulled us along this track for more than three decades. To them, we tip our hat and blow our whistle with gratitude and appreciation.

1295 Bardstown Road § 456-6950 2720 Frankfort Avenue § 896-6950 YZ THE STORIED SOUTH: VOICES OF teriously captivating painting that ultimately WRITERS AND ARTISTS draws Theo into the William Ferris $35 art underworld. Com- Ferris sits down with 26 writers, scholars, posed with the skills musicians, painters, and photographers in- of a master, The Gold- cluding Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Cleanth finch is a haunted od- Brooks, C. Vann Woodward, Pete Seeger, yssey through Walker Evans, Rebecca Davenport, William present-day America, Christenberry, and George Wardlaw, and and a drama of almost records their tales and recollections of the unbearable acuity and power of story in their lives. On the sense of power. It is a story of place so important to Southern culture and loss and obsession, writing, Welty survival and self-in- observes: “It is vention, and the enor- more of an inter- mous power of art. nal map than a SMOKE & PICKLES map of a geo- Edward Lee $29.95 graphical place. Chef Edward Lee’s story and his food could It is a map of only happen in America. Raised in Brooklyn minds and imagi- by a family of Korean immigrants, he eventu- nation.” The ally settled down in his adopted hometown of great blues musi- Louisville, where he owns the acclaimed res- cian Bobby Rush taurant 610 Magnolia. A multiple James Beard suggests that Award nominee story provides the common ground on which for his unique two disparate professions stand: “The patchwork cui- bluesman tells a story, and the preacher tells sine, Lee creates a story. I think the preacher and the bluesman recipes—filled are very, very much hand in hand.” This with pickling, moving and eloquent book comes with a CD fermenting, fry- and DVD of Ferris’s interviews with these ing, curing, and storytellers, as well as Ferris’s photos of each smoking—that artist. reflect the over- THE GOLDFINCH lapping flavors Donna Tartt $30 and techniques Donna Tartt publishes a novel about once a that led this Ko- decade, and each one is worth the wait. In The rean-American boy to feel right at home in the Goldfinch, Tartt again revisits the theme of South. Dishes like Chicken-Fried Pork Steak cataclysmic loss visited on the young. A with Ramen Crust and Buttermilk Pepper Gravy, thirteen-year-old boy in New York City, Theo Collards, and Kimchi, Braised Beef Kalbi with Decker, miraculously survives an accident Soft Grits and Scallions, and Miso-Smothered that takes the life of his mother. Alone and Chicken all share a place on his table. There is abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the food, and then there are the stories. As a friend’s family and struggles to make sense Southern Living magazine put it, “Between of his new life. In the years that follow, he the strength of his recipes and his natural becomes entranced by one of the few things knack for storytelling, we’ve dog-eared the that reminds him of his mother: a small, mys- bejeezus out of this book already.”

This is page 3 YZ THE BOOK OF JEZEBEL from sharing a meal with good friends. Now Anna Holmes $27 there’s The Kinfolk Table, which profiles 45 The Jezebel website was created by, and tastemakers who are cooking and entertain- attracts, tough-minded, smart women with a ing in a way that is beautiful, uncomplicated, brilliant sense of and inexpensive. Its focus is on everything humor that is, local—from the home kitchen garden to well, tough- repurposing and reusing materials in home minded and decoration. Kinfolk’s audience is mostly smart. With con- young and hip, but these are the folks that are tributions from the vanguard of cultural and lifestyle trends. the writers and creatives who give the site its distinctive tone and broad influence, The Book of Jezebel: An Il- lustrated Ency- clopedia of Lady Things is an encyclopedia of everything important to the modern woman. Running the gamut from Abzug, Bella and “Baby-sitters Club, The” to “Xena,” Yogurt, and Zits, the book is filled with entertaining sidebars and arresting images that make it a must-read for the modern woman. THE KINFOLK TABLE Nathan Williams $35 Kinfolk magazine—launched to great acclaim and instant buzz in 2011—is a quarterly journal about un- derstated, EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW unfussy enter- I LEARNED FROM A LITTLE taining. The GOLDEN BOOK journal has Diane Muldrow $9.99 captured the This wonderfully appealing little book came imagination of about when Diane Muldrow, a longtime edi- readers nation- tor of the iconic Little Golden Books, realized wide, with con- that, despite their whimsical appearance, there tent and an aes- was hardly a real-life situation that hadn’t thetic that re- been covered in the more than 70-year-old flect a desire to line of children’s books—from managing go back to sim- money, to the importance of exercise, to find- pler times; to ing contentment in the simplest things. All take a break our old favorites characters—The Poky Little from our busy lives; to build a community Puppy, Nurse Nancy, Mister Dog, and the around a shared sensibility; and to foster the Little Red Hen—are here, reproduced beauti- endless and energizing magic that results fully to capture a fresh and bright retro look.

This is page 4 YZ SHAPING HUMANITY Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, Alice shares John Gurche $49.95 recipes that celebrate the ingredients she What did earlier humans really look like? loves: tender leaf lettuces, fresh green beans, What was life like for them, millions of years stone fruits in the height of summer, and so ago? How do we know? In this book, interna- much more. Advice for growing your own tionally renowned paleoartist John Gurche fruits and vegetables abounds in the book— describes the extraordinary process by which whether you are planting a garden in your he creates forensically accurate and haunt- backyard, on your front porch, or fire escape. ingly realistic representations of our ancient human ancestors. Gurche doesn’t just sculpt DOG SONGS the various species of early ancestors, he Mary Oliver $26.95 “channels” them. Shaping Humanity is au- Beloved by her readers, close to the poet’s thoritative yet gentle, objective, and beauti- own heart, Mary Oliver’s dog poems offer a fully written. special window into her world. These are poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In these pages we visit with old friends, including Oliver’s well-loved Percy, and meet still others. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life emerge as fellow travelers, but also as guides, spirits capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. The New York Times says, “Dog Songs....is a sweet golden retriever of a book that curls up with the reader.” John Burgoyne’s pen-and-ink drawings mirror the simple and heart-felt tone of Oliver’s poetry.

THE ART OF SIMPLE FOOD II Alice Waters $35 A beautiful vegetable-focused book, The Art of Simple Food II showcases flavor as inspiration and embodies Waters’s vision for eat- ing what grows in the earth all year long. She shares her understanding of the whole plant, demystifying the process of growing and cooking your own food, and reveals the vital links between taste, cooking, gardening, and taking care of the land. Along the way, she inspires you to feed yourself deliciously through the seasons. From Rocket Salad with Babcock Peaches and Basil to Moroccan Asparagus and Spring Vegetable Ragout to

This is page 5 YZ SPOT THE DOT ners begin to bore him. Mr. Tiger, his bright- David Carter $12.99 orange face a sore thumb among the elephant Master pop-up-book creator David Carter grays and mule-deer browns, dreams of free- adapts a creative video game he developed dom. First, he drops to all fours. His neighbors for children to use on a tablet into an engaging are nonplussed. Then, he rampages and roars. novelty book that plays with colors in a fun, His neighbors are frightened. Finally, he gets hands-on way. With eye-popping, interac- naked. The village members suggest he head tive search-and-finds throughout, youngsters into the wil- will love this colorful adventure as they spot derness, the dot hidden in lift-the-flaps, turn-wheels, which he pull-tabs, and a giant pop-up that leaps off the thinks is a page. Kirkus Reviews said Spot the Dot was “magnificent “seamless in design: a delight even for the idea.” He diapered crowd.” And everyone knows what loves the wil- a tough audience the diapered crowd is. derness, with all its wild- ness, but, in time, he misses the city and his friends. He returns only to discover that things have loosened to a happy me- dium. He dons some aloha attire, and all is right with the world. The colors in Peter Brown’s illustrations explode off the page in this delightful picture book. LADYBUG GIRL & THE BIG SNOW David Soman $17.99 In the latest adventure in the popular Lady- FLORA & ULYSSES: THE ILLUMINATED bug Girl series, Lulu and her basset hound, ADVENTURES Bingo, enjoy a day of play outside in freshly Kate DiCmillo $17.99 fallen snow. Lulu sets off for a winter ramble It begins, as the best superhero stories do, in her customary all-red clothing, coordinated with a tragic accident that has unexpected from her ladybug-antenna earmuffs to her consequences. The squirrel never saw the polka-dot boots. The characters leap from vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described spread to spread, and the text has amazing cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read exuberance. Crisp and clean watercolor and every issue of the comic book Terrible Things line illustrations feature numerous comedic Can Happen to You!, is just the right person aspects. The images exemplify what the words to step in and save him. What neither can need not explain—with just a little imagina- predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been tion the average snowflake can transform the born anew, with powers of strength, flight, familiar into a world full of wonder. and misspelled poetry—and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility MR. TIGER GOES WILD of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. Peter Brown $18 This is another wonderful young adult tale Mr. Tiger lives in a perfectly fine world of prim from Newbery Award winner DiCamillo that is and proper ladies and gentlemen. One day, enhanced with whimsical illustrations from the stiff suits, dainty teas, and Victorian man- K.G. Campbell.

This is page 6 YZ GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT THE TORTOISE & THE HARE Mem Fox $16.99 Jerry Pinkney $18 When Bonnie and Ben’s favorite babysitter, This companion to Pinkney’s Caldecott-win- Skinny Doug, offers a bedtime salute of “Good ning The Lion & the Mouse is perhaps even night, sleep tight. / Hope the fleas don’t bite!” more stunning. Pinkney’s magnificently il- he embarks on a command performance of lustrated version of this famous fable gives seven traditional rhymes. The not-very-sleepy duo keeps him going, as he re- cites from his personal repertoire. The children beg for another bedtime rhyme, and Skinny Doug replies, “I’ll tell you another / I learned from my mother.” After “Good night, sleep tight,” Skinny Doug of- the race the excitement of an Olympic event. fers “It’s raining, it’s pouring,” “This little On the title page, the hare challenges the piggie,” “Pat-a-cake,” and many others. A tortoise and gives his neckerchief to the fox good bedtime rhyming book succeeds when referee to use for a flag. The setting is the it puts the children to sleep while keeping the Southwestern desert, and the animal specta- parent awake. Mem Fox’s Good Night, Sleep tors range from bobcat and vulture to field Tight certainly fills the bill. mouse and frog. The hare leaps forth as if shot from a cannon; the tortoise, grim-faced in an 20 BIG TRUCKS IN THE MIDDLE engineer’s cap and bandanna, plods forward OF THE STREET simply repeating the mantra “Slow and Mark Lee $15.99 steady,” “Slow and steady wins the race.” If you’re a little boy on a bike, an ice-cream The Tortoise & The Hare is a masterwork truck on your street is always a welcome sight. from one of the best children’s book illustra- But what if the truck breaks down and blocks tors working today. the mail truck behind it (now there are two), MAGIC MARKS THE SPOT: VOLUME 1 not to mention a third truck carrying hay? One by one, trucks of all Caroline Carlson $16.99 types and sizes and In this first volume of what promises to be a functions are sure to successful and lasting young reader series, pile up behind, offer- we encounter Hilary Westfield who has al- ing ample opportunity ways dreamed of being a pirate. She is a wizard for identifying every- at tying knots, swims like a fish, and even thing from dump trucks owns a sword, but The Very Nearly Honor- to cranes to cement able League of Pirates refuses to let any girl mixers—and counting join their ranks of scourges and scallywags. them. It’s a monumen- Hilary is tenacious and not the kind of girl to tal traffic jam that Mark Lee turns into a take no for an answer, and this wonderful tale, rhythmic read-aloud and counting book, sure part Pippi Longstocking, part Lemony Snicket, to draw in kids who love anything on wheels. is certain to have young readers begging for future installments.

This is page 7 YZ LITTLE SANTA FORTUNATELY, THE MILK Jon Agee $17.99 Neil Gaiman $14.99 Ever wonder what Santa might have been as A little boy and his younger sister awake one a child? Even though the thought is some- morning, milkless. Their mother is away on what unsettling, Jon Agee imagines a terrific business, their father is buried in the paper, story of just how and their Toastios are dry. What are the Santa grew up to young siblings to do? They impress upon be Santa. The their father that his tea is also without milk and rather large Claus sit back to watch their plan take effect. But family has a harsh something goes amiss, and their father doesn’t life at the North return and doesn’t return some more. When Pole, and Santa is he does he has a story to tell, a story involving the only family aliens, pirates, ponies, wumpires, and a stego- member who rel- saurus professor who pilots a Floaty-Ball- ishes the snow Person-Carrier. There is time travel, treachery, and ice. Just as and ample adventure, and, fortunately, the Mrs. Claus gets milk he has procured is rescued at every turn. fed up and decides to move the whole family Gaiman is a genius at the hilarious, slightly to Florida, a blizzard hits and little Santa off-kilter story, and, boy, does this one do his climbs a chimney, and comes across some reputation proud. flying reindeer, and a neighboring houseful of elves. The rest, as they say, is history. LOCOMOTIVE Brian Floca $17.99 THE YEAR OF BILLY MILLER Floca follows up his acclaimed Moonshot: Kevin Henkes $16.99 The Flight of Apollo 11 with this ebullient, In The Year of Billy Miller Henkes offers breathtaking look at a family’s 1869 journey what he so often does in these longer works from Omaha to Sacramento via the newly for children: a sense that experiences don’t completed Transcontinental Railroad. The have to be extraordinary to be important and unnamed family is a launching point for Floca’s dramatic. Billy’s slightly dreamy interior life irrepressible isn’t filled with either angst or boisterous exploration silliness—rather, into, well, ev- the moments that erything about appear in these sto- early rail travel, ries are clarifying from crew re- bits of the larger uni- sponsibilities versal puzzle of and machinery growing up, chang- specifics to the ing, and understand- sensory thrills ing the world. Small, of a bridge rum- precise black-and- bling beneath white drawings and the wind punctuate and blasting into your face. The substantial text is decorate the pages. delivered in nonrhyming stanzas as enlight- Sweetly low-key and totally accessible, kind ening as they are poetic. Beautiful illustra- of like a Seinfeld episode where “nothing tions will attract young readers while the happens,” but, as in reality, life teems with informative text engages older children. small, crazy, heartwarming events.

This is page 8 YZ DOCTOR WHO: THE VAULT The point where her fanfic life and her real life Marcus Hearn $45 cross propels the story, and Cath’s struggle If you want to see a stampede, simply yell out, into adulthood becomes an epic battle. Pub- “Is there a Doctor Who fan in the house?” The lishers Weekly called Fangirl “a funny and Vault is the full and official story of Doctor tender coming-of-age story that’s also the Who, from the story of a writer finding her voice...touching show’s first pre- and utterly real.” production memos in 1963 to MAPS behind-the- Aleksandra Mizielinska $35 scenes material First published in Poland in 2012, this oversize from the latest world atlas is packed with details about many season, including of the nations of the world, encapsulated in interviews with clear-line cartoons. The book is organized by key cast and crew continent, and each featured nation gets its members as well own spread. Not every country is repre- as scores of prop sented since Maps is aimed at a younger photos, design audience–still, the nations that do get cov- sketches, and other collectible memorabilia. ered are a delight to explore, as Mizielinska The Vault is a collector’s dream—the ulti- fills the maps with tiny labeled images of local mate celebration of all that is Doctor Who. As wildlife, cuisine, activities, and notable citi- one reviewer succinctly put it, “I don’t really zens giving Maps a Where’s Waldo density know what else to say other than this book is to the illustrations. It is both a fact-filled and a must-have for Whovians.” graphic extravaganza as well as a celebration of diversity and an investigation of the natu- FANGIRL ral and cultural offerings that make each coun- Rainbow Rowell $18.99 try unique. Confronting the quandaries of real life has never been easy for eighteen-year-old Cath Avery. Socially awkward and riddled with anxi- eties, she only feels confident in the imaginary World of Mages, the setting of a bestselling children’s fan- tasy series, and as one of its most popular fan fiction authors, Cath has ruled that world with ease. But once she is off to college, and separated from the support of her twin sister, her life suddenly becomes more complicated.

This is page 9 YZ THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT: EAT MOVE SLEEP THE SCIENCE OF LIFE SPAN AND Tom Rath $24.95 AGING It’s rare that Carmichael’s has a book that Jonathan Silvertown $25 remains in hardback for more than a year or “Potatoes live longer than kings,” sighs ecolo- two, and seems to sell better with every ensu- gist Silvertown in this whimsical book on ing year—but that has been the case with aging. It may seem odd Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder 2.0 which came to suggest a book on out in 2007. Now Gallup senior scientist Rath aging as a holiday gift, explores how diets, exercise regimens, and but since we all do it, why sleep choices influence our health. Rath, di- not place ourselves in the agnosed at age 16 with a life-threatening hand of someone who genetic disorder, draws from personal experi- can give us fascinating ences as well as research, asserting that “small dose of science with a decisions about how you eat, move and sleep spoonful of sweet wit and each day count more than you think.” He humor. The Long and the offers practical tips to make long-lasting be- Short of It pairs a per- havioral changes and, in an encouraging, petually fascinating topic conversational tone, urges readers to “forget with a wholly engaging writer, and the result fad diets, forever,” “make inactivity your en- is a supremely accessible book that will re- emy,” and “sleep longer to get more done.” ward curious readers of all ages.

BEFORE I DIE Candy Chang $24.99 THIS IS THE STORY OF A When artist Candy Chang painted the side of HAPPY MARRIAGE an abandoned building with chalkboard paint Ann Patchett $27.99 and she wrote the words, “Before I die, I want Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, to____,” she never expected it to become a author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto, worldwide phenomenon. Since then, more examines her deepest commitments—to writ- than two hundred walls have been created by ing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her people all over the world. This book is a husband—creating a resonant portrait of a celebration of life in this collection of essays. This Is the these walls. Be- Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the fore I Die is more very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Stretch- than an art instal- ing from her childhood to the present day, lation, it’s a from a disastrous early marriage to a later hope-filled trea- happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, tise on finding including relationships with family and joy in the every- friends, and charts the hard work and joy of day and a power- writing and the unexpected thrill of opening ful reminder that a bookstore. As she shares stories of the life is for the liv- people, places, ideals, and art to which she ing, and it’s never has remained indelibly committed, Ann too late, or too early, to join the party. Atlantic Patchett brings into focus the large experi- magazine said of Chang’s project, “Before I ences and small moments that have shaped Die is merely one of the most creative commu- her as a daughter, wife, and writer. nity projects ever.”

This is page 10 YZ THE MEN WHO UNITED THE STATES voking dishes and unconventional pairings Simon Winchester $29.99 draw on techniques both traditional and mod- Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The ern that combine with the heart of the Manresa Professor and the Madman, delivers his first experience: fruits and vegetables. Through a book about America: a fascinating popular pioneering collaboration between farm and history that illuminates the men who toiled restaurant, nearby Love Apple Farms sup- fearlessly to discover, connect, and join the plies nearly all of the restaurant’s exquisite citizenry and geog- raphy of the U.S.A. produce. Manresa is an ode to the mountains, from its quarrelsome fields, and sea. It shares the philosophies and beginnings. How passions of a brilliant chef whose restaurant did America be- draws its inspiration globally, while always come “one nation, keeping a profound connection to the people, indivisible”? What producers, and bounty of the land that sur- unified a growing rounds it. number of disparate states into the modern country we rec- WILSON ognize today? To A. Scott Berg $40 answer these ques- Scott Berg has written a lively, highly-read- tions, Winchester able account of the life of our 28th president. follows in the footsteps of America’s most This is not a scholarly tome, but rather a essential explorers, thinkers, and innova- balanced (though tors—such as Lewis and Clark and the lead- certainly positive) ers of the Great Surveys, the builders of the account of Wilson first transcontinental telegraph, the engineers the man—compli- of the transcontinental railroads, and the cated, conflicted, powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate high-minded yet Highway System. He treks across vast swaths bawdy and un- of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Roch- abashedly racist, ester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, who initially kept to talk to ordinary citizens about these great us out of World projects and their effect on the creation of a War I, and then “united” states. made the monu- mental decision to MANRESA: AN EDIBLE REFLECTION join the fray with David Kinch $50 full force. Some of the best parts of Wilson This is a long-awaited cookbook by David cover his political skills, or lack thereof. De- Kinch, a Bay Area chef who has revolution- spite an academic background and little expe- ized restaurant culture with his take on the rience in politics, he managed to defeat the farm-to-table ethic and focus on the “terroir” incumbent Republican Taft, the beloved Pro- gressive Theodore Roosevelt, and the popu- of the Northern California coast. Since open- lar Socialist candidate Eugene Debs. The ing Manresa in 2002, Kinch has done more to Boston Globe noted, “Berg gives Wilson a create a sense of place through his food— fresh look, restoring him to the place he occu- specifically where the Santa Cruz Mountains pied—the idealist in politics—before recent meet the sea—than any other chef on the biographers wrote him off. Now, thanks to West Coast. The restaurant’s thought-pro- Berg, we know a more fully rounded Wilson.”

This is page 11 YZ WANT NOT ONE SUMMER: AMERICA, 1927 Jonathan Miles $26 Bill Bryson $28.95 This follow-up to Miles’s much-loved debut, We would follow Bill Bryson almost any- Dear American Airlines, is a novel about where, and in this new book he leads us to want and about waste—from refuse found in America in 1927. What Bryson discov- dumpsters to roadkill, radioactive waste, junk ers is a year filled with bonds, and unwanted babies. The characters events that still span the full range of breathe with wonder contemporary American decades later— culture, from dumpster- Lindbergh flies solo diving “freegans” squat- across the Atlantic, ting in New York’s East Babe Ruth hits 60 Village to a New Jersey home runs, Al Capone suburbanite in the “debt terrorizes Chicago, acquisition” business, Sacco and Vanzetti are who extorts payment executed, the great from marginalized people flood of 1927 inun- to finance an upper- dates an area the size of Scotland and begins middle class existence for his wife and teen- the great African-American migration north, age stepdaughter. In another thread, a lin- the first talkie, “The Jazz Singer”, debuts, 30 guistics professor is hired by the government million sports fans listen to the famous Jack to develop a system to warn future genera- Dempsey-Gene Tunney “long count” fight— tions, who will no longer speak our languages, events that all took place in the summer of about stored underground radioactive waste. 1927. As always with Bryson, stories lead to For readers who relish extravagant language, other stories, historical background is filled in scathing wit and philosophical heft, Want that frequently both amazes and amuses, and Not wastes nothing. the entire book feels like a tall tale told by a best friend. A READER’S BOOK OF DAYS Tom Nissley $24.95 A Reader’s Book of Days is filled with memo- THE SOUTHERNER’S HANDBOOK: A rable and surprising tales from the lives and GUIDE TO LIVING THE GOOD LIFE works of Martin Amis, Jane Austen, James Editors of Garden & Gun $27.99 Baldwin, Roberto Bolaño, the Bronte sisters, Drawn from the pages of the enormously Junot Diaz, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, popular Garden & Gun magazine, this collec- Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats, tion of more than a hundred instructional and Hilary Mantel, Haruki Murakami, Flannery narrative essays offers a comprehensive tu- O’Connor, Orhan Pamuk, Marilynne torial for modern-day life in the South. From Robinson, Dr. Seuss, Zadie Smith, Susan food and drink to sporting and style, home Sontag, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster and garden to arts and culture, you’ll discover Wallace, and many more. The book also notes essential skills and unique insights from some the days on which famous authors were born of the South’s finest writers, chefs, and and died; it includes lists of recommended craftspeople—including the secret to making reading for every month of the year as well as perfect biscuits, tips for betting on the Ken- snippets from book reviews as they appeared tucky Derby, and how to whip up a proper across literary history. Throughout there are Sazerac. You’ll even find Roy Blount, Jr. on wry illustrations by acclaimed artist Joanna how to tell a great story and Jack Hitt on how Neborsky. to cook a whole hog.

This is page 12 YZ THE PURE GOLD BABY HYPERBOLE AND A HALF Margaret Drabble $26 Allie Brosh $17.99 Jess is a passionate British anthropologist It’s kind of hard to top Jenny Lawson’s blurb eager to learn more about the children she of Hyperbole and a Half: “This book made encountered in Africa who were living with a me laugh, cry, and leak. It was honest, poi- rare genetic syndrome. Instead, she ends up gnant, and ridiculously silly in all the best staying put in 1960s London as a single ways and I’m better mother once she has her own “pure gold for having read it. Plus, baby,” a beautiful, happy little girl with an doggies!” Based on atypical mind. Transforming herself into an Brosh’s immensely anthropologist of the inner world, Jess finds popular blog, the book plenty of customs and mind-sets to scrutinize contains more than as she seeks guidance in raising Anna, who 50% original, unpub- loves to sing and make art but can’t learn to lished material. Brosh count or read. Jess dives into a far-ranging is a connoisseur of the and profoundly unsettling investigation into human condition. In how such children are perceived and treated. her typical self-dep- Drabble can deftly comingle the sentimental recating and dramatic and the matter-of-fact in a style The New York manner (hence the hyperbole reference), she Times called “as meticulous as Jane Austen, tells personal stories that name things we can and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh.” all relate to, including fear, love, depression, and hope. Perhaps the most endearing thing about her writing is that she approaches her QUIET DELL subject matter from a vulnerable, childlike Jayne Anne Phillips $28 place, complete with paintbrush caricatures In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne that have arguably already earned iconic sta- Anne Phillips has written one of the best tus. novels of the year. It’s the story of a serial . killer’s crimes and capture, based on the true WE ARE WATER story of a widow from Quiet Dell, West Vir- Wally Lamb $29.99 ginia, and her children who are murdered by We Are Water is a searching novel of contem- a man she met through porary manners—and long-buried secrets— correspondence. De- by seasoned storyteller Wally Lamb. The plot spite how this thumbnail is complex, yet captivating and ultimately description sounds, this satisfying. On the brink of her second mar- is not a novel of bloody riage, artist Annie Oh is is plagued by “lifestyle mayhem. About a third guilt.” After a tormented childhood, a flood of the way into the story, that killed her mother and sister, a stint in center stage is occupied foster care, and abuse at the hands of her by Emily Thornhill, a cousin, Annie leaves her husband for a woman: Chicago Tribune re- art dealer Viveca Christophoulos-Shabbas. porter assigned to cover Much like Lamb’s I Know This Much is True, the story. Quiet Dell is this new novel explores a family’s secrets and much more about Emily than the murders–– subtly draws the reader in to the point where her almost telepathic empathy with the vic- it’s exquisitely uncomfortable to read. Lamb tims and their lives, all told in Phillips’s breath- is a terrific writer, his characters are fully taking, soaring lyrical style. realized and believable, and We Are Water is a novel to seek out for yourself or to give.

This is page 13 YZ DANIEL: MY FRENCH CUISINE OUTSIDE THE LINES: AN ARTISTS’S Daniel Boulud $60 COLORING BOOK FOR GIANT From coming of age as a young chef to adapt- IMAGINATIONS ing French cuisine to American ingredients Souris Hong-Poretta $18 and tastes, Daniel Boulud reveals how he For anyone who loves creativity and contem- expresses his culinary artistry at Restaurant porary art, or who simply loves the joy of Daniel. With more than 75 signature recipes, coloring, comes Outside the Lines, a striking plus an addi- collection of illustrations from more than 100 tional 12 reci- creative masterminds, including animators, pes Boulud pre- cartoonists, fine artists, graphic artists, illus- pares at home trators, musicians, outsider artists, photogra- for his friends phers, street artists, and video game artists. on more casual With contributions from Keith Haring, AIKO, occasions, Shepard Fairey, Exene Cervenka, Keita Daniel is a wel- Takahashi, Jen Corace, Ryan McGinness, come addition and more, Outside the Lines “features edgy to the art of and imaginative pieces ready for you to add French cook- your own special touch. The Huffington Post ing. Included said “This coloring book, geared towards art- are diverse and informative essays on such loving adults, might be the best thing we’ve essential subjects as bread and cheese, and, ever seen.” from Bill Buford, a thorough and humorous look at the preparation of 10 iconic French HUMANS OF NEW YORK dishes, from Pot au Feu Royale to Duck a la Brandon Stanton $29.99 Presse. With more than 120 gorgeous photo- In the summer of 2010, photographer Bran- graphs capturing the essence of Boulud’s don Stanton set out on an ambitious project: cuisine and the spirit of restaurant Daniel, as to single-handedly create a photographic cen- well as a glimpse into Boulud’s home kitchen, sus of New York City. Armed with his camera, Daniel is a must-have for sophisticated he began crisscrossing the city, covering foodies everywhere. thousands of miles on foot, all in an attempt to capture New THE TRICKSTER’S HAT Yorkers and their Nick Bantock $20 stories. What The act of creating art, in all its forms, offers started as an on-line us a path to our souls. But the path can be hobby has blos- confusing, and getting lost along the way is somed into an amaz- inevitable. However, maybe that’s the point. ing book. With four In The Trickster’s Hat, bestselling author of hundred color pho- the Griffin & Sabine cycle Nick Bantock tos, Humans of invites you to lose yourself in order to become New York is a stun- a better creator. Inspired by Nick’s popular ning collection of and mischievous workshops, not to mention images that show- his stunning illustrations, the book’s 49 per- cases the outsized personalities of New York. ceptive exercises will encourage you to forget Surprising and moving, printed in a beautiful your destination while you meander through full-color, hardbound edition, Humans of New the wondrous world that awaits you in the York is a celebration of individuality and a periphery of your mind’s eye. tribute to the spirit of the city.

This is page 14 YZ JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON: THE INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE RIVALRY THAT FORGED A NATION Sherill Tippins $30 John Ferling $30 Architect Philip Hubert intended the elegantly In the 1790s a great debate raged as to just designed Chelsea Hotel to attract creative how our newly-born republic would actually residents—from extra thick walls for quiet to operate in the real world—lofty philosophy wide hallways for stimulating conversation— now had to grind out details of just how these the Chelsea has always been a way station for grand ideas would be implemented. At the artists on the two poles of the debate were Thomas edge. From Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson Dylan Thomas championed individual liberty and power for and Brendan the states and Hamilton believed America Behan in the De- would never become great without a strong, pression to the uniting central government. It is a battle that parade of bril- rages still, more than 200 years later. This isn’t liant 50s and 60s dry, wonky history. Ferling’s account of two rebels like Allen of the most famous American revolutionaries Ginsburg, Bob offers gossip and intrigue, and bristles with Dylan, Janis excitement as he portrays their heated and Joplin, Leonard turbulent relationship. Cohen, Andy Warhol, Robert THE NIGHT GUEST Mapplethorpe, Fiona McFarlane $26 and Sid Vicious, An eerie aura of foreboding pervades the Chelsea has always been an incomparable McFarlane’s debut novel about Ruth, a lonely New York institution. As Arthur Miller, who widow living in an isolated beach house in lived next door, put it, “The great advantage Australia. Ruth’s to living at the Chelsea was that no one gave life is quiet and a damn what anyone else chose to do.” predictable, save for one con- spicuous bit of THE ANIMAL BOOK strangeness: she Steve Jenkins $21.99 is certain a tiger Animals smooth and spiky, fast and slow, hop is prowling and waddle through the 200 plus pages of around her prop- Caldecott Honor artist Steve Jenkins’s most erty at night. The impressive nonfiction offering yet. Sections Night Guest, such as “Animal Senses,” “Animal Extremes,” Gothic in sensi- and “The Story of Life” burst with fascinating bility with a facts and infographics that will have trivia touch of magical buffs breathlessly asking, “Do you know a realism, is a novel termite queen can produce up to 30,000 eggs that feels at once a day?” Jenkins’s color-rich cut-and-torn pa- like a classic and a fresh, original tale of per artwork is as strikingly vivid as ever. It’s engrossing literary suspense. Fans of psy- a bountiful and beautifully illustrated trea- chologically oriented Scandinavian fiction sure-trove of facts, art, trivia, science, lore, should feel a familiar draw to this first novel, and a great gift for someone of any age inter- which is already creating significant buzz ested in the science and dazzle of the animal around the globe. kingdom.

This is page 15 YZ A COMPENDIUM OF COLLECTIVE THE HEART OF THE PLATE NOUNS: FROM AN ARMORY OF Mollie Katzen $34.99 AARDVARKS TO ZEAL OF ZEBRAS With The Moosewood Cookbook, Mollie Mark Faulkner $35 Katzen changed the way a generation cooked We may not realize it, but we all make use of and brought vegetarian cuisine into the main- collective nouns, a name we give to a group stream. In The Heart of the Plate, she com- of animals, people, even objects—“a flock of pletely reinvents her vegetarian repertoire, sheep,” “a gang of thieves,” “a chest of unveiling a collection of beautiful, healthful, drawers”—but in the 1500s the creation of and unfussy dishes—her “absolutely most exotic collective nouns became almost a par- loved.” Her new cuisine is light, sharp, simple, lor game. Some are amusing, some baffling, and modular; her inimitable voice is as per- but most of these Medieval concoctions are sonal, helpful, clear, and funny as ever. dazzling in their weirdness—“a murder of Whether it’s a salad of kale and angel hair crows,” “a skulk of friars,” “a raft of otters”, pasta with orange chili oil or seasonal autumn “an ambush of tigers,” and many others. In A lasagna, these dishes are celebrations of veg- Compendium of Collective Nouns we get etables. Suppers from the oven, like vegetable much much more than a simple list of these pizza and mushroom popover pie, are com- linguistic oddities. The folks at the edgy Woop forting but never stodgy. Get ready to make Studios in London have provided gorgeous, weeknight dinners fresh and exciting. color-drenched illustrations that are literal representations of some of the strangest of these obscure and mostly forgotten morsels in the history of our language. BEST AMERICAN INFOGRAPHICS 2013 Gareth Cook $20 Gareth Cook says we are living in a “golden age of infographics,” and this fresh and visu- DEATH OF THE BLACK-HAIRED GIRL ally arresting addition to the “Best Ameri- Robert Stone $25 can…” series gives much credence to his At a small, prestigious New England liberal opinion. Widespread in print media, televi- arts college, a brilliant young undergraduate sion, and on the internet are graphic represen- student, Maud Stack, is killed by a hit-and-run tations of complex data that would be, in many driver. When it happened, she had been stand- cases, incomprehensible to many. From sports ing outside with her college professor and ex- stars on ESPN to gun lover in an angry confrontation. There were ownership rights by many witnesses, and opposing points of view country, from dog about how she died, why she died, and who breeds grouped by killed her. Additionally, there are characters their DNA profiles to either central or peripheral to Maud’s life that jaw-dropping depic- provoke the reader into asking questions tions of Twitter traf- about truth and illusion, religious rearing, the fic, these varied and connections and responsibilities of our pa- imaginative ways of trons and protectors, and the security of our visually presenting civic structure. Stone imbues his characters data are an art form in with a rare depth that makes each one worthy itself. Sure, there may of his or her own novel. With its atmosphere be information you don’t care that much of dread starting on page one, this story will about, but when you see the graphics you haunt readers for some time. realize you are much more engrossed in the data than you ever thought you would be.

This is page 16 YZ THE DIARY OF EDWARD THE SCHOTTENFREUDE: GERMAN WORDS HAMSTER, 1990-1990 FOR THE HUMAN CONDITION Miriam Elia $14.95 Ben Schott $16 This wickedly dark, funny book is the perfect Ever thought, “There should be a German gift for existentialists of all ages. Edward lives word for that?” Well, thanks to the brilliantly in a world defined by his cage, a wheel that original mind behind Schott’s Original Mis- taunts him with its meaningless toil, his never- cellany, now there is. Schottenfreude is a changing diet of seeds, and his diary that unique, must-have dictionary, complete with reflects the glum tedium of his brief life. There newly coined words that explore the idiosyn- are simple diary entries like “Saturday, May crasies of life as only the German language 5th: Seeds, wheel, water. Seeds, wheel, water. can. In what other language but German could Perhaps I will try you construct le mot juste for a secret love of the wheel first bad foods, the inability to remember jokes, tomorrow.” And Sunday-afternoon depression, the urge to “Sunday, June yawn, the glee of gossip, reassuring your 4th: The cage. Ev- hairdresser, delight at the changing of the erywhere is the seasons, the urge to hoard, or the ineffable cage. They can pleasure of a cold pillow? A beguiling, ideal take my freedom gift book for the Gelehrte or anyone on your but not my soul, list. for I Am a Ham- ster!” His diary SCHILLER’S LIQUOR BAR is an extraordi- COCKTAIL COLLECTION nary work, filled with profound meditations Keith McNally $19.95 on the nature of captivity, the emptiness of Pulled from the recipe box of Schiller’s Liquor life, and the irrational will to live…and the Bar, this collection delivers the classic cock- ability to make us laugh out loud. tails and original drinks that are a signature of Keith McNally’s New York City hotspot. HERETICS AND HEROES Encased in a collectable gift box, this set Thomas Cahill $29.95 includes four books: Volume VI in Thomas Cahill’s brilliant Hinges Classic Cocktails that of History series is easily the most gripping reflects the simplicity yet. Covering the period from Martin Luther’s of Schiller’s original launch of the Protestant Reformation to the drink list, Artisanal Up- waning days of the Renaissance, it describes dates that focuses on a time that changed the world so utterly that today’s trend toward life at the beginning and end of this period fresh ingredients and would be unrecognizable to each other. If unique infusions, Sea- presented like a Billy Joel song, you would sonal Drinks that of- have: the 95 Theses, the Borgias, Shakespeare, fers suggestions for Copernicus, Galileo, Elizabeth I, the Spanish special occasions and holidays, and The Armada, Jamestown, Michelangelo, Bartender’s Handbook that serves as a catch- Magellan, Cortés, Kepler, Don Quixote, The all reference for glasses, barware, techniques, King James Bible, Isaac Newton, the Great and ingredients. With full-color photogra- Plague of London, and Henry VIII. All of this phy throughout each 98-page book, this col- is presented in Cahill’s crisp, conversational lection celebrates cocktails that are one part style that is almost unrivaled in today’s writ- vintage combined with a healthy splash of ers of nonfiction. modern appeal.

This is page 17 YZ CITY PARKS: PUBLIC PLACES, THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT PRIVATE THOUGHTS Amy Tan $29.99 Catie Marron $50 Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement is a City Parks illuminates the spirit and beauty of sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s the world’s most loved city parks: an extraor- intertwined fates and their search for identity, dinary visual and poetic journey from London which moves from the lavish parlors of Shang- to Brooklyn, Calcutta to Chicago, and Paris to hai courtesans to the fog-shrouded moun- San Francisco, tains of a remote Chinese village. Spanning captured in more than 40 years and breathtaking two continents, it resur- photographs and rects pivotal episodes in the evocative history: the collapse of words of cel- China’s last imperial dy- ebrated writers nasty, the rise of the Re- and personali- public, the explosive ties. These are all growth of lucrative for- love letters to city eign trade. Tan explores parks: Colm the exotic inner workings Tóibín Park Guell of courtesan houses and in Barcelona, the lives of the foreign Zadie Smith on the Villa Borghese in Rome, “Shanghailanders” living in the International Simon Winchester on the Maiden in Calcutta, Settlement, both erased by World War II. Nicole Krauss on Prospect Park in Brooklyn, This is a deeply evocative novel about the André Aciman on Manhattan’s High Line, profound connections between mothers and even Bill Clinton chimes in with an essay on daughters, and Tan, with her characteristic his love of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. insight and humor, conjures a story of inher- Great writers on the incomparable respite that ited trauma, desire and deception, and the a great city park provides its citizens. power and stubbornness of love. NATURAL HISTORIES OF SEEING FLOWERS: DISCOVER THE EXTRAORDINARY BIRDS HIDDEN LIFE OF FLOWERS Paul Sweet $50 Teri Dunn Chace $29.95 Extraordinary Birds follows the success of We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and Natural Histories, and is the next compen- yellow daffodils. But when we really look dium in this well-received series that marries closely at a flower, whole new worlds of art and thought-provoking science. Ameri- beauty and intricacy emerge. Seeing Flowers can Museum of Natural History ornithologist is a visual feast that gloriously highlights 343 Paul Sweet takes readers on a migratory jour- popular garden flowers. Using a unique photo ney across the globe, introducing them to process that includes stitching together large unique and exquisite birds, as well as to macro photographs, Robert Llewellyn’s work groundbreaking avian studies from the past reveals details that few have ever seen: the 500 years. Featuring 40 frameable prints and amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; an equal number of fascinating, in-depth es- the subtle shadings on a petal; the secret says, this stunning collection gives bird lov- recesses of nectar tubes. Teri Dunn Chace’s ers a precious look at illustrated ornithologi- lyrical and illuminating essays offer insights cal monographs from the museum’s Rare Book on each flower by exploring distinguishing Collections. Of Sweet’s previous book, Natu- characteristics and sharing fascinating tid- ral Histories, Publisher’s Weekly said “this bits, tales, and lore. gem of a book is one of the best in its class.”

This is page 18 THEYZ BULLY PULPIT SIGNED BOOKS Doris Kearns Goodwin $40 Books autographed by the author make The gap between rich and poor has never special holiday gifts for any bibliophile. been wider . . . legislative stalemate paralyzes Supplies are always limited, but right the country . . . corporations resist federal now we have signed copies of: regulations . . . spectacular mergers produce •One Summer, 1927 by Bill Bryson giant companies . . . •This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by the influence of Ann Patchett money in politics •Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry deepens . . . bombs •The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (and explode in crowded many other Conroy titles) streets . . . small wars •We are Water by Wally Lamb proliferate far from our •Smoke & Pickles by Edward Lee shores . . . a dizzying •The Art of Simple Food II by Alice Waters array of inventions •MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood speeds the pace of •Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk daily life. These •Levels of Life by Julian Barnes unnervingly familiar •Pulphead and Blood Horses by John Jeremiah headlines serve as the Sullivan backdrop for Doris •Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker Kearns Goodwin’s highly anticipated The •The Fountain at St. James Court by Sena Jeter Naslund Bully Pulpit, a dynamic history of the first •Night Film by Marisha Pessl decade of the Progressive era, that tumultu- •The Road from Gap Creek by Robert Morgan ous time when the nation was coming •Enon by Paul Harding unseamed and reform was in the air. The •The Men Who United the States by Simon characters who stride across this landscape Winchester are giants—politicians like Theodore •The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and William Gilbert Howard Taft as well as their gadflies, muck- •Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George raking journalists like Ida Tarbell and Lincoln •Cooked by Michael Pollan Steffans. It’s almost as if Goodwin has written •Allegiant by Veronica Roth •The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan a brilliant history of our own times, rather than •An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins a snapshot of America from 100 years ago. •The One-Day Contract by Rick Pitino THE KNOWLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA •Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem •Guests on Earth by Lee Smith Smithsonian Staff $29.99 •Light of the World by James Lee Burke Packed with information in six sections (Space, •Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan Earth, Nature, Human Body, Science and His- •And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled tory), this lavishly illustrated volume pro- Hosseini vides accessible and engaging information •Stitches by Anne Lamott for middle-grade readers and up. Every page •W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton is tightly laid out with facts, photos, illustra- •Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat tions, and impressive 3-D renditions. The •Aimless Love by Billy Collins Smithsonian Knowledge Encyclopedia al- •Masterminds & Wingmen by Rosalind lows readers to become immersed in the de- Wiseman •Hymn for the Black Terrific by Kiki Petrosino tails and visuals that abound. One review of •Furious Cool by David & Joe Henry The Knowledge Encyclopedia said, “Excep- •The Cornbread Mafia by James Higdon tional, sophisticated books like these are what •Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson inspire children to become scientists.” •Champion by Marie Lu

This is page 19 YZ A FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN HOUSES COWGIRL CREAMERY COOKS Virginia McAlester $50 Sue Conley $35 For the house lover and the curious tourist, We can still remember the days when you for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, opened the fridge, and the cheese choices for neighborhood preservation groups and were plastic-wrapped Kraft Singles or a giant for all who want to know more about their block of Velveeta. There has been a cheese community—here, at last, is a book that makes explosion in America in recent years, and the it both easy and pleasurable to identify the array of cheeses now various styles available is mind-bog- and periods of gling. Collecting the American do- vast accumulated wis- mestic archi- dom of two of the tecture. These world’s great cheese are not iconic makers, Cowgirl or historically Creamery Cooks is significant one of those rare houses, but or- books that immedi- dinary homes ately asserts itself as that represent an indispensible addition to the food lover’s almost 300 library. It’s an engrossing read that shares years and the story of the Cowgirls and the creation of seven distinct an artisanal creamery. Included are sources, periods in the history of American domestic recipes, history, and a beautiful presentation architecture. At more than 800 pages and of more delicious “comestibles” than the containing 600 photographs and illustrations, Monty Python “Cheese Shop” routine. A Field Guide to American Houses is a guide to the communities in which we live, and those THE DEATH OF SANTINI we would love to visit. Pat Conroy $28.95 One doesn’t have to have read The Great BROWN DOG: NOVELLAS Santini to know that Pat Conroy was deeply Jim Harrison $27 scarred by his childhood. It is the theme of his He probably wouldn’t like to hear it said, but work and his life, from the love-hate relation- Jim Harrison has become a literary treasure, ship in The Lords of Discipline to broken and in his vast body of work—novels, poetry, Tom Wingo in The Prince of Tides to the essays—there is probably no single charac- mourning survivor Jack McCall in Beach ter as memorable as Brown Dog, a bawdy, Music. In this memoir, Conroy unflinchingly reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian reveals that his father, fighter pilot Donald who has appeared in a number of Harrison’s Conroy, was actually much worse than the stories and novellas. Gathered together in abusive Meechum in The Great Santini. Tell- this volume are all the Brown Dog tales, ing the truth also forces the author to confront including one never-before-published work. a number of difficult realizations about him- As the Miami Herald put it, “Brown Dog, a self. “I was born with a delusion in my soul familiar and beloved character to fans of that I’ve fought a rearguard battle with my Harrison, boasts the rare ability to reject the entire life,” Conroy writes, “though I’m very frills and artificial complexities of modern life much my mother’s boy, it has pained me to and keep to the basics. It’s like reading a book admit the blood of Santini rushes hard and filled with stories of old friends.” fast in my bloodstream.”

This is page 20 YZ THE HOME PAGES Books of Local Interest THE FOUNTAIN OF SAINT JAMES COURT Sena Jeter Naslund $26.99 Subtitled “Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman,” this lively and pointed variation on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays two women artists in a novel-within-a-novel. Successful writer Kathryn Callaghan lives in present-day Lou- isville, Kentucky, in a lovely, old neighborhood surrounding a fountain depicting “Ve- nus Rising from the Sea,” a graceful embodi- ment of the novel’s inquiry into the obstacles confronting women artists. Battered by her third divorce yet buoyed by her neighbors and friends, Kathryn completes a novel about the brilliant and resolute 18th century French painter Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. The fountain is real, Vigée-Lebrun is a real historical figure, but Naslund’s eloquent language and lyrical prose have the power to lift the reader from these “real” trappings to a mesmerizing realm of the imagination. THIS DAY: COLLECTED AND NEW SABBATH POEMS Wendell Berry $35 For 35 years Wendell Berry has been writing what he calls Sabbath Poems. They are crafted mostly outdoors; on foot. walking his beloved Kentucky farm on Sundays. They have appeared scattered across the vast pasture of his work—in small press volumes, magazines, broadsides, hidden in other collections—but now they are all gathered into a single volume. Berry best describes what the Sabbath Poems represent: “In such places, on the best of these Sabbath days, I experience a lovely freedom from expectations—other people’s and also my own. I go free from the tasks and intentions of my workdays, and so my mind becomes hospitable to unintended thoughts: to what I am very willing to call inspiration. The poems come incidentally or they do not come at all. If the Muse leaves me alone, I leave her alone. To be quiet, even wordless, in a good place is a better gift than poetry.”

This is page 21 YZ HISTORIC HOUSES OF LOUISVILLE THIS I BELIEVE KENTUCKY Steve Wiser $25 Dan Gediman $19.95 Louisville consistently ranks high as one of This collection of “This I Believe” essays the best places to live in America. It was gathers 60 thoughtful explorations of the core named the top livable city in 2012, 2008, and values and guiding principles of authors who several other years over the past few de- are either from Kentucky or who are writing cades. To be a great place to live, there has to about Kentucky. The be good, desirable neighborhoods and great contributors range variety and uniqueness to its architecture. from former heavy- Within these remarkable environments are a weight champion variety of housing types: from basic shapes Muhammad Ali and like Shotguns and Bungalows, to more elabo- Spalding University rate styles such as Classical Revivals and President Tori Murden Tudors. Among this large group, there are McClure, to Kentucky several select Poet Laureate Frank X houses which in- Walker, best-selling volve more ex- authors Silas House ceptional plan- and Sena Jeter ning and crafts- Naslund, to ordinary manship. These Kentuckians from every corner of the state distinguished and all walks of life. Also included are a dozen homes also have essays from Edward R. Murrow’s original fascinating his- 1950s This I Believe radio series, including tories of how those from newspaper publisher Barry they were built Bingham, Sr. and U of L professors Charles and who owned Parrish and Edmund Schlesinger. them. These noteworthy houses are often in secluded, non-visible locations scattered ALL ABOARD THE BELLE OF LOUISVILLE throughout the region. Architect and histo- Marie Bradby $14.95 rian Steve Wiser has researched these land- In All Aboard! The Belle of Louisville, pas- mark residences and assembled them into this sengers drop what they are doing and rush to book Historic Houses of Louisville. board one of the oldest operating steamboats in the world. Hurry! The captain and crew are STEVE WISER WILL BE busy getting the Belle’s old engines SIGNING COPIES OF going. Steam PUFFS. HISTORIC HOUSES OF Machines WHIRR. Gears CLICK. Here LOUISVILLE ON we go! Come along SATURDAY, DECEMBER for a lively ride on this boat that dates 14TH, FROM 2-4 PM back to the industrial age—a time when steam- DURING FRANKFORT boats were the rulers of transportation and the fastest roads were rivers. This delightful AVENUE OLDE TYME children’s picture book comes from Marie CHRISTMAS Bradby, author of More Than Anything Else and many other childen’s books.

This is page 22 YZ THE CAUDILLS OF THE CUMBERLANDS KENTUCKY BOURBON COUNTRY: Terry Cummins $24.95 THE ESSENTIAL TRAVEL GUIDE Appalachian author and activist Harry Caudill Susan Reigler & Pam Spaulding $24.95 published the first edition of his landmark There is no more enthusiastic and knowl- bestseller, Night Comes to the Cumberlands, edgeable spokesman for Kentucky culture in 1963—fifty years ago this year, and than Susan Carmichael’s has sold it steadily for 35 years. Reigler—from He dedicated the book, “With affection and books on our state respect to my wife, Anne, without whose parks, Kentucky assistance and insistence it would never have cuisine, and back- been written and to the Kentucky coalminers woods travel in the whose trials and tragedies are its central state, to a position theme.” Anne Frye first met Harry Caudill in as resident biologist 1945; they were married a year later, and thus at Blackacre Pre- began a partnership that lasted almost half a serve—she now century. Anne Caudill—at age 89—tells au- tackles Kentucky’s thor Terry Cummins fascinating and incred- iconic spirit, bour- ible stories from her life with Harry in Appa- bon. In Kentucky lachia. She recalls historic visits by famous Bourbon Country, people, memorable moments with family and Reigler, with photographer Pam Spaulding in friends, and shares captivating accounts of tow, follows the bourbon trail and all its side regional legends and lore. roads to give us a definitive guide to the distilleries and their unknown histories, as MY KENTUCKY LIFE well as practical facts on tours and locations. Dave Shuffett $25 For over a quarter-century, popular television host of KET’s “Kentucky Life” Dave THE ORIGINS OF LOUISVILLE’S Shuffett has traveled thousands of miles OLMSTED PARKS & PARKWAYS across Kentucky, interviewing people and Sam Thomas $50 photographing places that showcase what is “When I learned that before he died last year unique and extraordi- Sam had nearly completed a years-long effort nary about his beloved to produce a book about the origins of the Bluegrass State. For 25 Louisville park system, I knew I wanted to years, Dave and his help,” said Gill Holland. “We at Holland popular canine co- Brown Books are honored to have worked hosts have shared their with Sam’s widow, Debbie Thomas, to release travels and adventures this book on the one-year anniversary of his with television viewers, passing.” Sam’s thorough research in this exposing them to the book highlights all the great parks-related fantastic places and work the ever-industrious and civic-minded colorful characters he citizens of Louisville undertook before has discovered in every county of Kentucky. Olmsted first came here to work on the parks Included in My Kentucky Life are100 pages in 1891 at the request of Andrew Cowan and of his favorite photographs and essays from the Salmagundi group. Sam documents earlier those travels, opening our eyes and our hearts Olmsted trips to Louisville as well. One of the to the rich heritage, fascinating people, color- great things about books is that a wonderful ful culture, and pure natural beauty of the man and rigorous historian like Sam Thomas Commonwealth. will live on forever in his work.

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