Another entry for next year is Don DeLillo's Point Omega due out in February. My favs are Underworld, Libra, Mao II. Hopefully he'll score with his new one.
Neglected from yesterday's List were:
Paul Auster's Invisible, which opens in New York in 1967 when aspiring poet Adam Walker meets Frenchman Rudolf Born and his girlfriend Margot. Three different narrators tells this story that travels to 2007 from Morningside heights to the Left Bank. While one can't expect another New York Trilogy, his fifteen novel is very satisfying.
Rick Bass' The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana. Bass describes a full-year of life living in Montana's Yaak Valley.
Before the Republican Party was captured by the religious right, neo-cons and corporate interests alone, it had moderates, liberals and even progressives. Glenn Beck was against John McCain because McCain's hero was Theodore Roosevelt, one of those progressives. Douglas Brinkley, who has made a career of chronicling America, brings us a nearly 1,000 page account of Theodore Roosevelt's efforts on behalf of conservation and the environment--The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. Roosevelt's new nationalism did not foreclose the preservation of wilderness for future generations and cultivating the civic virtue of environmentalism.
Emerging as one of my favorite writers is Timothy Egan, author of The Worst Hard Times and Breaking Blue. If you can't wade through Brinkley, Egan will get you to the point faster with The Big Burn--Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. This is the story of the Big Burn or The Great Fire of 1910, which engulfed Montana and Idaho and the heroic efforts of the forest rangers to battle it and the financial interests aimed at destroying the forest service.
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