became friends with Bobby Fischer when
they were children, has written Endgame:
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and
Fall — from America's Brightest Prodigy
to the Edge of Madness (Crown), part tra-
ditional biography and part personal mem-
oir. He traces the Jewish chess champion's
chessboard artistry as well as his eventual
paranoia and outspoken anti-Semitism.
Sugar in my Bowl: Real Women Write
About Real Sex, edited by Erica Jong,
assembles a provocative collection of
essays on sex from some of today's most
prominent female writers, journalists and
thinkers, including Anne Roiphe, Daphne
Merkin, Eve Ensler and Jennifer Weiner.
Markel writes of the physical and emo-
tional damage caused by the then-heralded
wonder drug and how each man ultimately
changed the world in spite of it — or
because of it. One became the father of psy-
choanalysis; the other, of modern surgery.
Dr. Markel is director of the Center for the
History of Medicine at the University of
Michigan.
rAEMOIRS
Suze Orman delivers a master class on per-
sonal finance in The Money Class: Learn
to Create Your New American Dream
(Spiegel and Grau), refashioning her advice
about home, family, career and retirement
for a new economic age.
When her oldest four children started going
off to college, writer Melissa Faye Greene
and her husband began expanding their
family, adopting five children over eight
years from orphanages in Ethiopia and
Bulgaria. In her new memoir, No Biking
in the House Without a Helmet (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux), Greene presents a
domestic comedy about a family — often
mistaken for a scout troop — that tries to
live in harmony.
From medical historian Howard Markel
(When Germs Travel) comes An Anatomy
of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William
Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
(Pantheon, July 19), the account of the
years-long cocaine use of Freud, a young
and ambitious neurologist, and Halsted,
the equally young, path-finding surgeon.
Allen Shawn — son of the legendary New
Yorker editor William Shawn and brother
of actor-writer Wallace Shawn — grew up
to become a composer and professor. In his
new memoir, Twin (Viking), he writes of
his journey to get to know his twin sister,
Mary, institutionalized at age 8 in the 1950s
for what was later diagnosed as autism.
The memoir The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering
My Grandfather's Secret Past (G.P.
Putnam's Sons) is the story of how author
Martin Davidson, a filmmaker and histo-
rian of Scottish descent now living England,
went about piecing together the hidden
past to discover a buried family secret:
His grandfather (from whom the author's
mother had long been estranged) had been
an SS officer in Hitler's army.
Raised half-Jewish and half-Mormon,
Roseanne Barr, in Roseannearchy:
Dispatches From the Nut Farm (Gallery
Books), unleashes her always controversial
observations on everything from hypoc-
risy, hubris and pharmaceuticals to class
warfare, feminism, the cult of celebrity and
Kaballah. In her chapter "What is a Jew,"
she offers her definition: "1. A Jew is a per-
son who thinks they know what everyone
thinks, and that it is different from what
they themselves think. 2. A Jew is one who
also believes that all those other Jews are
wrong.
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ISLAND
In Season To Taste: How I Lost My Sense
of Smell and Found My Way (Ecco),
aspiring chef Molly Birnbaum writes of a
devastating accident that seemed to derail
her plans for a culinary career and her
grand quest to understand and overcome
her condition.
Larry King looks back on his career at CNN
and his personal life in Truth Be Told:
Off the Record about Favorite Guests,
Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes
and a Half Century of Asking Questions
(Weinstein Books), having his say about
marriage, politics, sports, entertainment,
the justice system, broadcasting and the
American future.
In The Memory of All That: George
Gershwin, Kay Swift and My Family's
Legacy of Infidelities (Crown; July 19),
novelist Katharine Weber (Triangle:A
Novel) tells the story of her colorful and
famous family, including the scandalous
10-year love affair between her married
grandmother composer Kay Swift and
George Gershwin.
Finally, what summer reading list is
complete without a baseball book? Two-
time All-Star Shawn Green's The Way
of Baseball (Simon and Schuster) is
part memoir, part philosophical study
and part spiritual journey. Here, he
shares the lessons the game taught him
about being present and attaining inner
stillness — no matter what life throws
you (including being a Jewish baseball
player in L.A., "where every conversa-
tion asserted that I was 'the next Sandy
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