Word: kirkus
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...noted anthropologist William Bass. Prolific crime writer Patricia Cornwell popularly dubbed it a "body farm" in her novel of the same name. Bass himself has co-written a series of best-selling novels set on the farm; the first, Carved in Bone, was described as "southern-fried forensics" by Kirkus Reviews...
...Charles C. Mann, a leading science writer, has decided to remedy that, with his new book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Knopf). The prepub reviews have been glowing. "Unless you're an anthropologist, it's likely that everything you know about American prehistory is wrong," trumpets Kirkus Reviews. "An excellent, and highly accessible, survey of America's past." Galley Girl reached Mann at home in Amherst, Massachusetts...
...book, We're All in This Together (Bloomsbury), a collection of stories including a novella featuring an eccentric grandfather who is being driven slowly insane by the 2000 election results, has met with critical praise. Said Publishers Weekly, "This original collection heralds the arrival of the next generation." Said Kirkus Reviews, "Newcomer King is a talent to watch." Galley Girl ate Chinese food with Owen, who is decidedly his own man, writing with a distinctive voice and wry sense of humor...
...Take 15 disgruntled lawyers, scholars and journalists, give them a publishing contract, and stir. The results will look something like "The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right," edited by Herman Schwartz (Hill & Wang; November). Kirkus calls the book a "full-bore, peppery assault on the current Supreme Court...That the court put George W. Bush into the White House is, in these contributors' estimation, but one of its manifold sins, though it's a big one...Contributor address the Court's perceived failings, born of the very judicial activism that so many conservatives denounce...Expect worse, the authors warn...
...Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History" by TIME Washington correspondents Ann Blackman and Elaine Shannon (Little, Brown). On October 29, Random House will publish "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America" by David Wise. Kirkus is impressed, giving it a starred review. "A solidly paced, richly detailed account, by the intelligence-community insider Wise, of the FBI desk jockey who sold secrets to the Soviet and Russian governments for two decades - and came close to getting away with it...A first-rate true-crime story...