Baseball, psychoanalysis, and literary luminaries are the stars of today’s Nonfiction spotlight:
Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever by Kevin Cook
“Entertaining, well-researched history…”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews
“This thorough dismantling of one of modernity’s founding figures is sure to be met with controversy.”–Booklist, starred review
The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year That Changed Literature by Bill Goldstein
“Goldstein’s ardently detailed, many-faceted story of a pivotal literary year illuminates all that these tormented visionaries had to overcome to “make the modern happen.”–Booklist