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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The fall to-do list is long: There are apples to be picked, Oktoberfest beers to sip, elections to vote in, and of course — so many new books to read! We sorted through the current and upcoming releases to find 16 titles you should watch out for this fall. Dive in!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fiction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction.png\" alt=\"Eight book covers laid out in two rows of four.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-800x487.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-1020x621.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-768x467.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-1536x935.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/fiction-1920x1168.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiction recommendations from NPR. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Creation Lake’ by Rachel Kushner (Sept. 3)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kushner’s new novel is about a spy named Sadie Smith (great spy name), infiltrating an eco-extremist group in southern France. 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Her last novel was a nearly 600-page tome, but this newest one is a collection of shorts — like a pillowcase full of trick-or-treat candies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Mighty Red’ by Louise Erdrich (Oct. 1) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The newest Erdrich release (which is always a big deal in the literary world) will take place during the economic crisis of 2008. There’s something of a love triangle in this book, with a woman named Kismet at the center. But Kismet’s mother has reason to worry about Kismet’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Great When’\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>by Alan Moore (Oct. 1) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legendary comic book writer returns with his first novel since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/09/18/494287211/in-jerusalem-nothing-youve-ever-lost-is-truly-gone\">\u003cu>2016’s \u003c/u>\u003cem>\u003cu>Jerusalem.\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> This new one takes place in postwar London, following a young bookshop employee named Dennis who find a copy of a book from a \u003cem>different\u003c/em>, more fantastical London.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Bull Moon Rising’ by Ruby Dixon (Oct. 15) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Dixon is the author behind the \u003cem>Ice Planet Barbarians\u003c/em> series, a world of romance/erotica books with a fairly outlandish premise (Women land on a planet of sexy aliens. They do stuff together). 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In classic Murakami fashion, the book touches on themes of loss, loneliness, and isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nonfiction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction.png\" alt=\"Eight book covers laid out in two rows of four.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1218\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-800x487.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-1020x621.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-768x468.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-1536x935.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nonfiction-1920x1169.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nonfiction recommendations from NPR. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>‘Lovely One: A Memoir’ \u003c/em>by Ketanji Brown Jackson (Sept. 3) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>America’s first Black female Supreme Court justice writes a memoir detailing her early childhood, and the hurdles she faced coming up in the legal world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘We’re Alone: Essays’ by Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This essay collection finds Danticat looking back at her native country of Haiti. 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As the first woman to co-anchor the \u003cem>CBS Evening News\u003c/em> as well as the first Asian to anchor a national news broadcast in the U.S., Chung has got loads of stories to share about breaking into the industry and dealing with rivals and the other men in her way.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Message’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Oct. 1) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Coates’ 2015 book \u003cem>Between the World and Me\u003c/em> made a huge splash, winning awards and audiences as it addressed race in America. Since then, Coates has written comics, a novel, and did some reporting. And this new book is the result of that reporting, documenting his travels everywhere from the West Bank to Columbia, South Carolina, in order to come to terms with the myths we tell ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Sonny Boy: A Memoir’\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>by Al Pacino (Oct. 15) \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It was Pacino’s mom that first used the nickname Sonny Boy. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 830px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/a-day-in-september.png\" alt=\"A book cover featuring an illustration of soldiers lying in a large ditch.\" width=\"830\" height=\"1212\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/a-day-in-september.png 830w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/a-day-in-september-800x1168.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/a-day-in-september-160x234.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/a-day-in-september-768x1121.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind’\u003cbr>by Stephen Budiansky. \u003ccite>(W. W. Norton & Company)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 57,000 books have been published on the American Civil War so what possibly could be left to explore ?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quite a bit, it turns out, particularly regarding the bloodiest battle of the war and in American history, Antietam. In one day of savage fighting, Sept. 17, 1862, an estimated 6,500 soldiers were killed and at least 15,000 wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13963406']In 291 brisk, fact-stuffed but engaging, thought-provoking pages, \u003cem>A Day in September\u003c/em> by Stephen Budiansky examines how ill-prepared we as a nation were for war, but more significantly, what we learned and how those advances led to better military training, rapid improvements in battlefield medical care and the beginnings of a reconciling of the differences in North and South society, values and beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some key American institutions at the outbreak of the Civil War were astonishingly primitive and Antietam revealed just how bad. Pre-Civil War, for example, most graduates of the U.S. Military Academy were well-schooled in math and engineering, much less so in military tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many soldiers lacked even rudimentary training such as target shooting. Militias often behaved like fraternal organizations or a mob, Budiansky writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical care was primitive. For example, most doctors of the Civil War era did not understand how disease was transmitted. Treatment of the wounded at Antietam typically was chaotic; drivers charged with taking wounded to field hospitals often were drunk, the book observes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What might have made the book even more engaging would be to carry the lessons learned from these failings to the present day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, can we resolve our current differences peacefully?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is an absorbing, illuminating, compelling book that calls on us to consider the advances in military strategy, medical care and diplomacy that Antietam gave us at horrific cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962885']It also asks us to consider a rift between science and religion that emerged after the war. The book notes that our religious leaders also fell short, telling the populace on both sides during the Civil War that God was on their side, but as the author quotes Lincoln as observing, one side must be wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then and now, reasoned discussions and diplomacy largely failed and some Americans are openly talking about a potential Civil War II. They would not if we absorbed some of the lessons from this book.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind’ by Stephen Budiansky is released on Sept. 3, 2024, via W. W. Norton & Company.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They are traveling from Zurich to Prague, where Einstein has landed a job as a full professor in theoretical physics, teaching in the German section of what is now Charles University. He has a few things on his mind, including money troubles, but most critical is his unfinished theory of relativity. When they leave the city 15 months later, Einstein will have cracked the code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens over the course of this long, mysterious year in Prague is the question driving Ken Krimstein’s new graphic novel \u003cem>Einstein in Kafkaland\u003c/em>. Part biography, part historical fiction, Krimstein playfully explores the possibilities, building, with footnotes, on a thorough archive of letters, diaries, and other research. The result, a thought-provoking work made up of comics suffused in a gentle mix of aquamarine watercolors, is equal parts joyful and ruminative. (Think: \u003cem>Alice in Wonderland \u003c/em>meets \u003cem>The Lives of the Poets \u003c/em>meets \u003cem>Krazy Kat.\u003c/em>) The full subtitle to the book — \u003cem>How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe\u003c/em> — signals the lavish whimsy that goes a long way towards making this such a delightful, inspiring read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1482px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2.png\" alt=\"An illustration of a small figure standing at a huge window frame where there is the enormous bearded face of a man talking.\" width=\"1482\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2.png 1482w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-800x1080.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-1020x1377.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-160x216.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-768x1036.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-2-1138x1536.png 1138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1482px) 100vw, 1482px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turns out that Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka lived in Prague at the same time and had the same circle of friends. \u003ccite>(Ken Krimstein/Bloomsbury Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Throughout, cartoon-Einstein sports his characteristic pipe alongside a signature frizzy head of hair. But it’s his obsessive ruminations that perhaps most effectively signal what has become Einstein-the-character, a culmination of all the gossip, public appearances, private words, and first-hand accounts of one of the best-known scientists to have ever lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13963016']Krimstein pairs Einstein’s story with that of Franz Kafka, who was 28, virtually unpublished, and living with his parents in a house in Prague when Einstein arrived for his short but impactful stay. What binds the two together, in addition to an alleged one-time meeting at a weekly salon, is a complementary preoccupation with getting at the truth — “the true truth” — against all odds, and against many other people’s better judgements. For both, a journey to find this truth, whether in science or literature, is one that will sometimes alienate as painfully as it may ultimately bind them to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Einstein’s time in Prague, a time in which he works out his theory of relativity, Kafka will have his own breakthrough. In one long feverish night he will pen the short story, most often known in English as “The Judgment,” which will launch an unparalleled writing career forever transforming art and literature. Like Einstein’s completed theory of relativity, Kafka, too, will offer the world a new way of thinking. It’s a way of thinking that, our narrator assures us, “we’re all still struggling to catch up to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1441px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963409\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein.png\" alt=\"A page of watercolored panels depicting Albert Einstein gazing pensively out of a window.\" width=\"1441\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein.png 1441w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-800x1110.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-1020x1416.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-160x222.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-768x1066.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/ein-1107x1536.png 1107w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1441px) 100vw, 1441px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A moment from ‘Einstein in Kafkaland.’ \u003ccite>(Ken Krimstein/Bloomsbury Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite his title, Krimstein centers his book unevenly, focusing mainly on Einstein, and taking us step by step through the meditations that lead to his discovery. Nonetheless, along the way he also provides readers with glimpses into the life of the perpetually melancholic insomniac insurance clerk, Kafka. We witness, for example, an early morning swimming routine with his best bud — and future literary executor — Max Brod. But what Kafka’s presence in the narrative most crucially enables are imagined conversations between him and Einstein. In these, the two puzzle, and sometimes commiserate, over what it means to see the world differently from everyone else. What happens when you believe so confidently in your own hard-won perceptions that you risk killing the heroes that brought you there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krimstein, a well-published cartoonist whose previous work includes another delightful graphic biography, \u003cem>The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt\u003c/em>, luxuriates in intellectual history shoulder to shoulder with juicy biographical details. He depicts Einstein debating with his foe, Max Abraham; taking fantastical trips into a four-dimensional world with Euclid; and walking and talking with Austrian physicist, and dear friend, Paul Ehrenfest. And he exposes, too, scenes of the future Nobel Prize winner in the bath, trying to kill off bedbugs; or engaging with his young children, and wife, in Gedankenexperiments (thought experiments), to help him think through the problems that continually occupy him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13962965']At its heart, \u003cem>Einstein in Kafkaland \u003c/em>is the story of ordinary genius. It unwraps the ways in which genius so often arises out of ordinary circumstances. Perhaps even more compellingly, the book tracks how unimaginable discoveries develop following exchanges with others — friends and family, colleagues and nemeses, neighbors and role models. 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