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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 3 sepTember 2019
Atwood, Rushdie novels among fall highlights

By HILLEL ITALIE Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first nov- collection since 2010, “Sum- phen Greenhouse’s “Beat- Jean-Georges Vongerich-
Associated Press el, “The Water Dancer,” mer Snow.” Poetry also is en Down, Worked Up: The ten. Supreme Court Justice
NEW YORK (AP) — This fall, is the story of a slave’s ex- coming from Sharon Olds, Past, Present, and Future of Neil Gorsuch’s “A Republic,
some of the timeliest and ternal and internal journey; Nick Flynn, Anne Simpson, American Labor.” Edward If You Can Keep It” collects
most topical books will be the author has called the Daniel Poppick and the Snowden, the former gov- speeches and essays and
found in the fiction section. work a “myth” to counter- country’s new poet laure- ernment employee famed is expected to touch on his
From Margaret Atwood’s for leaking documents that contentious confirmation
“The Testaments,” her se- revealed a massive gov- to the court in 2017.
quel to “The Handmaid’s ernment surveillance sys- Former Defense Secretary
Tale,” to Lucy Ellmann’s tem, has written the mem- Jim Mattis looks back on his
epic “Ducks, Newburypo- oir “Permanent Record.” career in “Call Sign Chaos.”
rt” and Salman Rushdie’s Jonathan Safran Foer, Music lovers again can look
“Quichotte,” novelists and known for such novels as forward to a new round of
short story writers are ad- “Everything is Illuminated,” memoirs. Elton John’s “Me”
dressing the news of the offers a daily approach is expected this fall, along
moment through imagined to climate change in “We with Debbie Harry’s “Face
narratives. Are the Weather: Saving It,” Flea’s “Acid for the Chil-
Some are set in the present, the Planet Begins at Break- dren” and Andrew Ridge-
others in the distant past fast.” He says the book ley’s “Wham!: George Mi-
and others in the undeter- came out of a conversa- chael and Me.” Prince’s
mined future. tion with an environmen- “The Beautiful Ones” is
“Fiction at its best is a jour- tal philanthropist about an built around a manuscript
ney toward the truth by an expression both had heard he and co-author Dan
indirect route,” says Rush- too often, “We have to do Piepenbring were working
die, whose novel brings the something.” Foer said the on at the time of his death.
tale of Don Quixote into most direct and tangible A former Prince collabora-
the age of YouTube and action is cutting down on tor, Morris Day, tells his story
reality television. “If done meat consumption, a point in “On Time: A Princely Life
properly, (it) can capture a he felt he couldn’t make in Funk.”
moment in such a way that through fiction. Liz Phair’s “Horror Stories” is
readers in the present can “I was aiming to make less a rock star memoir than
gain ‘recognition pleasure’ some quite specific factual a memoir that happens to
— ‘Yes, this is how things claims,” he says. “I wanted be written by a rock star.
are.’” to make a point about how It’s a collection of personal
Atwood has said the rise we can make a huge dent essays reflecting on every-
of Donald Trump helped in the environment by some thing from divorce to the
convince her to write “The relatively small changes in birth of her son to climbing
Testaments,” which returns how we eat.” trees on her grandparents’
readers to the ruthless pa- The Pulitzer Prize winners property. The singer-song-
triarchy of Gilead and to who helped relaunch writer known for her clas-
those resisting it. “Ducks, #MeToo have books out: sic “Exile in Guyville” album
Newburyport” is a 1,000- The New Yorker’s Ronan told The Associated Press
page journey through the Farrow has written “Catch in a recent telephone in-
worried mind of an Ohio and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a terview that Prince’s death
housewife who makes pies This cover image released by Scribner shows “The Institute” by Conspiracy to Protect Pred- was one reason she decid-
and despairs about Trump. Stephen King. Associated Press ators” and Jodi Kantor and ed to write the book.
Jeanine Cummins’ highly Megan Twohey reflect on “When these great music
anticipated “American act the racist beliefs of the ate, Joy Harjo. their New York Times cov- legends die, you realize
Dirt” tells of a bookseller in present, explaining dur- “Cutting Edge,” a crime erage in “She Said: Break- how much they meant to
Mexico who is threatened ing last spring’s booksell- and mystery anthology ed- ing the Sexual Harassment you and how much they
by a drug cartel and at- ers convention that fiction ited by Joyce Carol Oates, Story That Helped Ignite shaped your career. ... And
tempts to flee to the United can change minds by tak- features poems and sto- a Movement.” The wom- it gets you thinking about
States. Rob Hart sets his ing us to a “bone-deep ries from Atwood, Edwidge an sexually assaulted by your own legacy,” she said,
thriller “The Warehouse” level.” New fiction also will Danticat and Aimee Bend- Stanford University student adding that her book also
within a giant tech com- come from Ann Patchett er, among other women. Brock Turner, her name still was a way of confronting
pany called “The Cloud,” (“The Dutch House”), Ste- “In noir, women’s place un- unknown to the general the “horror” of the daily
a story billed as “Big Brother phen King (“The Institute”) til fairly recently has been public, has a memoir out in headlines.
meets Big Business.” and Zadie Smith (“Grand limited to two: muse, sexual September. “I believe there’s a power
“Journalism is incredibly im- Union”) and Monique Tru- object,” Oates writes in the Memoirs also are coming to being open and con-
portant, and data is great ong (“The Sweetest Fruits”). introduction. “The particu- from former UN Ambas- nected to your emotions,
at making people angry, Stephen Chbosky’s “Imagi- lar strength of the female sadors Susan Rice and Sa- acknowledging what’s
but a story sits with you the nary Friend” is his first novel noir vision isn’t a recogniz- mantha Power, Olympic happened to you. I don’t
way data doesn’t,” Hart since his million-selling de- able style but rather a defi- figure skater Adam Rippon, think it shows weakness. I
says. “Stories are about but, “The Perks of Being antly female, indeed femi- actresses Julie Andrews think it fortifies you against
empathy. I think we’ve col- a Wallflower” and Andre nist, perspective.” and Demi Moore, and chef a whole lot of hot air.”q
lectively decided our com- Aciman’s “Find Me” is a se- Current events will be ad-
fort is more important than quel to his novel that was dressed directly in such
someone else’s discom- adapted into an Oscar- nonfiction as Ibram X. Ken-
fort, and putting people in winning movie, “Call Me By di’s “How To Be an Antira-
someone else’s shoes for a Your Name.” cist,” Naomi Klein’s “On Fire:
bit seems a good way to Prize-winning poet Robert The (Burning) Case for a
counter that.” Hass will release his first new Green New Deal” and Ste- linda.reijnders@cspnv.com