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Shandler, the author of several cookbooks, sought solace in the usual place--her kitchen. The result, Estrogen: The Natural Way (Villard, $24.95), will be in bookstores next month. It contains 250 recipes that Shandler devised for foods to relieve her discomfort, including salad dressings and soups, muffins and mousse cake. Just one slice of mousse cake a day, she swears, keeps those hot flashes...
Krakauer clicked the traditional victory snapshots and started back down the mountain. But Into Thin Air, his fascinating and troubling account of the climb (Villard; 293 pages; $24.95), is no chronicle of triumph. He was in ragged physical shape. A wracking cough had torn loose chest cartilage; his body had burned away 20 lbs. of muscle mass; he was running out of bottled oxygen. But the deadliest element of his situation was one he barely noticed: innocent-looking clouds rising from valleys to the south. They were the tops of thunderheads, carrying a violent spring storm that would kill...
...tradition. One is superb; another, which could easily have been dismissed as a curiosity, has surprising merit; while the third, the most eagerly anticipated of the three, falls well short of expectations. The cities: Los Angeles, Washington and New York. The books: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner (Villard; 319 pages; $23), Powertown by Michael Lind (HarperCollins; 264 pages; $23) and Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison (Crown; 355 pages; $24). The themes: sex, power and degradation; sex, racism and violence; sex, murder and a 300-lb. version of Rupert Murdoch...
Some books, such as O.J.'s Legal Pad (Villard) -- which has sold about a quarter-million copies in the three weeks since its publication -- provide little more than good fun on the sidelines of the trial, but other efforts, far from being a gloss on events, may be altering their course. For instance, Resnick's book gave the prosecution insight into the former football star's possessiveness, but to the extent that Resnick was seen to be capitalizing on a tragedy, it also tainted her as a possible witness. A new book, Kato Kaelin: The Whole Truth, which...
...some such doldrum, adrift in giddiness or despair, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. Sure enough, Wonder Boys (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is, rather too cutely, not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel his hero Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. Tripp's well-reviewed early books are receding into the distant past, and he feels fraudulent when his writing students admire them. He pretends optimism to his editor, but the truth is that his half-written book is an unreadable mass of unstrung...