LISNews: Library Futurists

Story in the New York Times:

FICTION: “Olive Kitteridge,” by Elizabeth Strout

DRAMA: “Ruined,” by Lynn Nottage

HISTORY: “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” by Annette Gordon-Reed

BIOGRAPHY: “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” Jon Meacham

POETRY: “The Shadow of Sirius,” by W. S. Merwin

GENERAL NONFICTION: “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II,” by Douglas A. Blackmon