A higher sort of prose from John Updike
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike (Knopf, 501 pages, $40)
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Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike (Knopf, 501 pages, $40)
“Radiating Like a Stone: Wichita Women and the 1970s Feminist Movement” compiled and edited by Myrne Roe (Watermark Press, 300 pages, $20)
“Songs of Unreason” by Jim Harrison (Copper Canyon Press, 143 pages, $22)
“Emily, Alone” by Stewart O’Nan. (Penguin, $15)
“Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History 1513-2008” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Knopf, 512 pages, $50)
“Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest” by Wade Davis (Knopf, 655 pages, $32.50)
Watermark Bestsellers
“The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War” by Peter Englund, translated by Peter Graves (Knopf, 540 pages, $35)
“The House of Silk” by Anthony Horowitz (Mulholland Books, 304 pages, $27.99)
“On Canaan’s Side” by Sebastian Barry (Viking, $25.95)
Each year I do a best-books column at the end of December, but in looking through the books I read this year, I noticed a theme and thought I’d change the concept a little.
“Parallel Stories” by Peter Nadas, translated by Imre Goldstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1,152 pages, $40)
The Forgotten Affairs of Youth by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $24.95)
“Send Me Work” by Katherine Karlin (Northwestern University Press, 159 pages, $17.95)
The Wichita Public Library began offering e-books today.
“Jingle Bells: How the Holiday Classic Came to Be” written by John Harris and illustrated by Adam Gustavson (Peachtree Publishers, all ages, $16.95) is a fictional account of how a favorite Christmas song was written.
“1Q84” by Haruki Murakami (Knopf, 925 pages, $30.50)
“Jerusalem: The Biography” by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf, 650 pages, $35)
• 7 p.m. Tuesday: Stephen Perry, author of "Wander the Kansas Flint Hills in Words and Images" (Back Roads Press, $17.95), will discuss and sign his book at Watermark Books, 4701 E. Douglas. His watercolor prints are the centerpiece of this lovely little book that would make a great gift for anyone who loves the dramatic landscapes of the Flint Hills.
“Blue Nights” by Joan Didion (Knopf, 188 pages, $25)