Given all the books on Princess Di in the pipeline for next season, it seems fitting that Salon founder DAVID TALBOT has gone against the grain to focus on America’s version of a royal family. Brothers: A Hidden History of the Kennedy Years is an in-depth look at John and Robert that sheds fresh insight on their administration and their ambitions. Interviews with more than 150 persons close to the brothers plus the release of concealed government documents put Talbot in a prime position to uncover new truths. The Kennedy saga lives on Tuesday at the Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Boston | 7 pm | free | 617.566.6660.

5/7/2007 3:11:52 PM by Sharon | Comments [0] |  

Check this slightly hysterical rant of a Salon feature: "Oprah's Ugly Secret." Peter Birkenhead's screed is a meaty, 3-page attack of Oprah, damning her support of the best-selling self-help book The Secret. The book is currently No. 1 on best-seller lists and has shot ahead of the final Harry Potter tome in sales. Editors at Scholastic are probably shitting bricks right now. But Lady O is the one with something real to lose here.

When's the last time someone held her to scrutiny for something other than her weight? That would be another books-related scandal, back when she chose James Frey's A Million Little Pieces for her Book Club and then proceeded to crucify him on her show for being a lying recovering alcoholic junkie. Things got ugly. Looks like The Secret backlash has begun...

Remember your spirit, indeed.

3/5/2007 3:18:15 PM by Sharon | Comments [0] |