Books

Perhaps … in her past life

Jill Bolte Taylor, the brain researcher and one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2008, shares the story of her own stroke with Lesley Stahl, including what to do at the start of a stroke and how she quiets the voices inside her head today

It’s an exciting day over at the Book Party!

Judith Martin contemplates ‘Catch-22,’ the novel and the phrase

Whoopi is a book lover/fanatic/critic and has come to the book party with her latest recommendations. She says: ‘What I’m going to do during the course of the next few months is just hip you to some books I’m reading — some of the kids’ books, some of the adult books that I’ve decided that I want to get into …’ So herewith, her children’s book recommendations

Her racy, fictionalized new ‘bio’ of Laura Bush published yesterday. Here, Lesley Stahl questions Curtis about the ties between fiction and reality in the writing process

Her racy, fictionalized new ‘bio’ of Laura Bush publishes today … right in time for the Republican Convention. wowOwow asks why the First Lady is so intriguing and unknowable

The co-author of the book 100 Things To Do Before You Die, a travel guide to odd adventure sites that inspired people to live life to the fullest, has died at the young age of 47

Liz Smith and forensic anthropologist turned bestselling author Kathy Reichs comb through the ins and outs of what it’s like working with the dead but for the living

Spend the warm days of September reading this New York Times bestseller …

Our wowOwow book friend, Jane Green, stopped by this week and she came with some surpises. For one, she gave us five autographed copies of her New York Times bestselling novel, The Beach House, to give away. She also shared with wOw the inspiration behind The Beach House and her main character, Nan

Spend the warm days of September reading the NYT’s best-seller …