The Book We're Talking About This Week

March 18, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Book We're Talking About This Week The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, $25.00 Published on March 19th What is it about? Novelist Aleksandar Hemon grew up and worked in Sarajevo before moving to the U.S. in 1992 after war broke out in the former Yugoslavia. This unusual memoir is made up of short pieces, mostly previously published elsewhere, about his experiences both in his homeland and his new adopted country. Why are we talking about it? Hemon's novels have been highly praised, shortlisted for two National Book Critics Circle Awards and a National Book Award. This is his first book of non fiction, and has been getting a lot of attention in literary circles. Who wrote it? Click here to read more  Continue reading... Best New Books Out This Week 'Da Vinci Code' Free For A Week Major Book Prize Winner Announced What George HW Bush Wrote To Bill Clinton LISTEN: Neil Gaiman On Why He Wrote His New Book 8 Surprising Things You Can Turn Into Alcohol (NEW BOOK) 10 High School Required Classics That You Should Reread 9 Dead Authors With Insanely Active Social Media Accounts PHOTOS: 8 Reasons Owning A Dog Is Good For You 9 Dead Authors With Insanely Active Social Media Accounts 10 High School Required Classics That You Should Reread DAN FROOMKIN Careening Toward Telecom Dystopia (But Can We Stop It?) In her new book, Susan Crawford compellingly and disturbingly makes it clear that we are well on our way to a very disturbing future of expensive, substandard and unequal Internet access -- with Comcast boldly leading the charge. Continue reading... THEA GOODMAN Raising a Girl in a Media-Centric World I cannot make the world safe or perfect or even more evolved for her but I can tell the truth as I see it. As I turn out her light, I vow to do better, to turn off the noise. Continue reading... BILL BIGELOW 10 Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War At least in a formal sense, our country's memories of war are to be found in school history textbooks. Exactly a decade after the U.S. invasion, those texts are indeed sending "messages" to young people about the meaning of the U.S. war in Iraq. Continue reading... PETER VAN BUREN Review: Nick Turse's Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam As America again makes war on an industrial scale on nations far less advanced, and commits again torture, assassinations, mass killings and keeps secret prisons while all the while trying to hide its dirty hands from the American public, that Turse's book was published in 2013 is no accident. Continue reading... ALEXANDRA MONIR The Phenomenon of Paranormal YA When Stephen King came up with his first great idea, his debut novel Carrie, he paved the way for many of us YA authors through his realization that nothing fits supernatural phenomena quite like adolescence. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.