This is page 36 of the nonfiction book news archives.

Orhan Pamuk Begins Trial in Turkey (2005-12-16): Bloomberg reports on the trial of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who is accused of "insulting his nation's identity" by writing about some history that the country doesn't wish to acknowledge.

John Feinstein Spends Season With the Baltimore Ravens (2005-12-13): John Feinstein is familiar to sports fans as an author of sports books.

Wikipedia Joke Not So Funny (2005-12-12): Wikipedia is a great resource but something must be done to prevent the creation of fake entries, particularly when they are about people.

Jimmy Carter Visits Jon Stewart (2005-12-07): Former United States President Jimmy Carter made an appearance on The Daily Show Monday night to promote his new book, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (Simon and Schuster).

John Stewart Wins Thurber Prize (2005-11-28): Jon Stewart and co-author Ben Karlin have won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor for the book, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction.

National Book Award Means New Print Runs (2005-11-23): USA Today reports that the National Book Awards winners are seeing increased print runs by publishers.

Joan Didion Wins National Book Award (2005-11-17): Joan Didion has won the National Book Award for her book, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf), a moving memoir about the year in which her husband died and her daughter became seriously ill.

Frank McCourt Looks Back on a Life in Teaching (2005-11-16): Frank McCourt is best known to his readers as the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angela's Ashes.

Ashcroft Hires Democrat to Shop a Book Deal (2005-11-15): The New York Times reports that the extremely conservative former attorney general John Ashcroft is shopping a book proposal.

The Biology of Belief (2005-11-14): David Ian Miller of The San Francisco Chronicle talks to Bruce Lipton, cell biologist and author of The Biology of Belief, who says that our genes don't control our lives, but rather that our beliefs, not our DNA, that control our biology.

Joan Didion Explores Grief (2005-10-31): Joan Didion's book, The Year of Magical Thinking has struck a nerve.

The Stages of an Author's Journey (2005-10-22): Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, wrote a very funny essay for The New York Times entitled "Publish or Perish," in which she describes the stages of the journey of a published author as a cross between Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's stages of grief and Stendhal's stages of love.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Former Cottage Destroyed by Fire (2005-10-19): The Guardian reports that the former dacha or country cottage where Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote some of his most famous works was destroyed by fire.

John and Elizabeth Edwards Book Forum Pick (2005-10-18): Former Democratic Vice presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth have chosen their first book for the their new Book Forum: God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco).

Warren Buffett and the Bidding War (2005-10-13): Forbes reports that Warren Buffett has sparked a bidding war by announcing he's going to write a financial advice book.

New Words Added to the Dictionary Include SARS (2005-10-06): It's an exciting day for writers: the new edition of Merriam-Webster's dictionary is out.

John Berendt Heads to Venice (2005-09-29): Over ten years ago it wasn't The Da Vinci Code atop all the bestseller lists.

A Writer Learns His Lesson (2005-09-26): It was supposed to be another of those Under the Tuscan Sun/A Year in Provence kind of books.

Oprah Has Chosen A Million Little Pieces (2005-09-23): Is Oprah stepping away from the classics? After her summer of Faulkner, she's decided that her next pick is A Million Little Pieces (Vintage) by James Frey.

When Your Life Ends Up On the Silver Screen (2005-09-19): Walter Kirn, author of the novel that is the basis for the new film Thumbsucker starring Keanu Reeves describes for Time magazine how awkward it is to watch his childhood being played out on movie theaters across the nation.