Books Archive: P

Vance Packard

• Column: Disposable Personality

Ann Packer

• Mendocino and Other Stories (Vintage (US); Piatkus/Hodder Headline Australia (AU), 1969)

Devah Pager

• Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (University Of Chicago, 2007)

Camille Paglia

• Break, Blow, Burn (Pantheon, 2006)

Chuck Palahniuk

• Column: Palahniuk's Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming
• Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Doubleday, 2007)
• Choke (Doubleday & Co., 2001)
• Diary (Doubleday, 2003)
• Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (Doubleday, 2004)

Michael Palin

• Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin

Valerie Paradiz

• Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales (Basic Books, 2005)

Barry Paris

• Garbo (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Yongsoo Park

• Boygenius (Akashic Books [The Urban Surreal Series], 2002)

Robert B. Parker

• Gunman's Rhapsody (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001)

Carolyn Parkhurst

• The Dogs of Babel (Little, Brown & Company, 2003)

Tony Parsons

• One for My Baby (Touchstone, 2005)

Ann Patchett

• News: Ann Patchett's not 'nice'; just human

Joe Nick Patoski

• Willie Nelson: An Epic Life (Little, Brown, 2008)

Kevin Patterson

• Country of Cold: Stories of Sex and Death (Nan A. Talese, An Imprint of Doubleday, A Division of Random House, 2003)

Richard North Patterson

• Exile (Henry Holt and Company, 2007)

Sparrow L. Patterson

• Synthetic Bi Products (Akashic Books, 2001)

Annie Murphy Paul

• The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves (Simon & Schuster, 2004)

Eugenia Paulicelli

• Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt (Berg Publishers, 2004)

Leigh A. Payne

• Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Duke University Press, 2007)

Fred Pearce

• With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change (Beacon Press, 2007)

Jeff Pearlman

• The Bad Guys Won (HarperCollins, 2004)

T.R. Pearson

• Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting (Crown, 2006)

Barbara and Allan Pease

• Are You Made for Each Other? (Broadway Books, 2005)

Robrt L. Pela

• Filthy: The Weird World of John Waters (Alyson Publications, 2002)

George Pelecanos

• Hell to Pay (Little, Brown, and Company, 2002)

Charles Pellegrino

• Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look At the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections (William Morrow, 2004)

Dave Pelzer

• A Child Called "it" (Health Communications)

Stef Penney

• The Tenderness of Wolves (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

Otto Penzler [editor]

• The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age: The '20s, '30s & '40s (Vintage, 2007)

Benjamin Percy

• Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press, 2007)
• Feature: Painfully Masculine: An Interview with Benjamin Percy

Dr. Nicholas Pericone

• The Perricone Prescription: A Doctor's 28-day Programme for Total Body and Face Rejuvenation (Thorsons, 2003)

Robert Perinbanayagam

• Games and Sport in Everyday Life: Dialogues and Narratives of the Self (Paradigm Press, 2006)

Tom Perrotta

• The Abstinence Teacher (St. Martin's Press, 2007)

Dr. Marvin Olasky and John Perry

• Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial (Broadman & Holman, 2005)

Gaylene Perry

• Midnight Water (Picador (Australia), 2004)

Roland Perry

• Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight (Da Capo, 2005)

Tasmina Perry

• Daddy's Girls (Touchstone, 2007)

Allan Peterkin

• One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001)

Melody Petersen

• Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  It's hard to read Our Daily Meds without thinking of Americans as shaven-head underground dwellers of THX-1138, shuffling through their twilight days in a prescription-drug-haze.

   

Richard Peterson

• Extra Innings: Writing on Baseball (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
• Extra Innings: Writing on Baseball (University of Illinois Press, 2001)

Aaron Petrovich

• The Session: A Novella in Dialogue (Akashic Books, 2007)

Per Petterson

• Out Stealing Horses (Graywolf Press, 2007)

Richard L. Pimental-Habib, Ph.D.

• The Power of a Partner: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Gay and Lesbian Relationships (Alyson Books, 2002)

George Weinberg, PhD

• Why Men Won't Commit: Getting What You Both Want Without Playing Games (Atria Books, 2003)

Dee Dee Phelps

• Vinyl Highway: Singing as "Dick and Dee Dee" (Altergate, 2007)

Arthur Phillips

• Angelica (Random House, 2007)
• Angelica (Random House, 2007)

Marie Phillips

• Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

Tom Piazza

• My Cold War (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2003)

Jodi Picoult

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books
• News: Fact follows fiction: School shooting tale a best seller since March
• Nineteen Minutes (Atria Books, 2007)

Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch

• Dr. Golem: How to Think About Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2005)

Dina Koutas Poch

• I Heart My In-Laws: Falling in Love with His Family -- One Passive-Aggressive, Over-Indulgent, Grandkid-Craving, Streisand-Loving ... (Harcourt, 2007)

Carol Pogash

• Seduced by Madness: The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case (William Morrow, 2007)

Abigail Pogrebin

• Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish (Broadway Books, 2005)

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

• Three Daughters (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002)

Emily Pohl-Weary

• A Girl Like Sugar (McGilligan Books, 2004)

Sidney Poitier

• Feature: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Anna Politkovskaya

• Column: The Post-Putin Era: Russian Revolution or Russian Evolution?

Neal Pollack

• Alternadad (Pantheon, 2007)

Clare Pollard

• The Heavy-petting Zoo (Bloodaxe Books, 1998)

Robert Pollard

• Eat Ii: A Collection of Words and Pictures (Rockathon Records)

Sarah B. Pomeroy

• The Murder of Regilla: A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity (Harvard University Press, 2007)

Elena Poniatowska

• The Skin of the Sky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)

John Porcellino

• Perfect Example (Drawn & Quarterly, 2005)

Andrea Portes

• Hick (Unbridled Books, 2007)

Frank Portman

• King Dork (Delacourt, 2006)

Suzanne Portnoy

• The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir (Virgin Books, 2006)

Gerald Posner

• Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power (Random House, 2003)

David Von Drehle and The Political Staff of the Washington Post

• Deadlock: The Inside Story of America's Closest Election (PublicAffairs Books, 2001)

Virginia Postrel

• The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, & Consciousness (HarperCollins, 2003)
• Column: The Design Imperative

Tiffany Potter, C. W. Marshall [Editors]

• Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica (Continuum, 2007)

Kevin Powell

• Someday We'll All Be Free (Soft Skull, 2006)

Samantha Power

• News: Plenty of issues to chase for former Obama adviser

Kim Powers

• Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story (Carroll & Graff, 2007)

Richard Powers

• The Echo Maker: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)

Tori Amos & Ann Powers

• Tori Amos: Piece By Piece (Broadway Books, 2005)

Dave Praeger

• Column: Shit Happens

Sheridan Prasso

• The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Orient (Public Affair, 2006)

Terry Pratchett

• Monstrous Regiment (HarperCollins, 2003)
• Making Money (HarperCollins, 2007)

Katie Price

• Being Jordan: My Autobiography (John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2004)

Richard Price

• Lush Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

Robert M. Price

• Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind (Prometheus, 2007)

Felicia Pride

• Column: For the Love of the Art

Bill Pronzini

• Step to the Graveyard Easy (Walker Books, 2002)

Francine Prose

• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People who Love Books and for Those who Want to Write Them (Harper Perennial, 2007)
• A Changed Man (HarperCollins, 2005)

Spalding Gray, Francine Prose

• Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue (Crown, 2005)

Stephen Prothero

• Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn’t (HarperSanFransisco, 2007)

Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D.

• The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in An Extrovert World (Workman Publishing, 2002)

Philip Pullman

• News: The author of 'The Golden Compass' doesn't mince words

Natalie J. Purcell

• Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture (McFarland & Company, Inc.)

Daniel Leonhard Purdy

• The Rise of Fashion: A Reader (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

Kenneth B. Pyle

• Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (Perseus/Century Foundation, 2007)

Thomas Pynchon

• Against the Day (Penguin, 2006)
• Against the Day (Penguin, 2007)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  There is sheer virtuosity and beauty in Pynchon's prose, its poetry and jazz rhythms, which he uses to build up a sense of artistic wonderment and then discharges with that little laconic snap of emotion at the end.