Krakauer On Everest

New in Paper

Pynchon Sizes Up `Mason & Dixon'

April 19, 1998|By JOCELYN MCCLURG

* ``Into Thin Air'' by Jon Krakauer (Anchor, $7.99)

Krakauer's bestselling I-was-there account of the May 10, 1996, disaster on Mt. Everest.

* ``Mason & Dixon'' by Thomas Pynchon (Owl, $17)

Pynchon reimagines the lives of the British surveyors in this bestselling historical novel.

* ``The God of Small Things'' by Arundhati Roy (HarperPerennial, $13)

Roy's novel about 7-year-old twins, her first, was a bestseller in hardcover.

* ``Leaving a Doll's House'' by Claire Bloom (Back Bay Books, $13.95)

The actress' memoir, including her turbulent relationship with Philip Roth.

* ``Monster: Living Off the Big Screen'' by John Gregory Dunne (Vintage, $12)

Dunne describes the arduous task of writing the script (with wife Joan Didion) for ``Up Close & Personal.''

* ``Arkansas'' by David Leavitt (Mariner-Houghton Mifflin, $12)

Three novellas by the author of ``The Page Turner.''

* ``Che: A Revolutionary Life'' by Jon Lee Anderson (Grove, $18.50)

A portrait of Che Guevara, Latin American revolutionary.

* ``Out to Canaan'' by Jan Karon (Penguin, $12.95)

The fourth novel in Karon's bestselling series, set in a small town called Mitford.

* ``The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman: 1955-1967: Hunter S. Thompson: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. I'' edited by Douglas Brinkley (Ballantine, $19.95)

The letters of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

* ``White Crosses'' by Larry Watson (Washington Square Press, $14)

A sheriff decides to cover up the truth about a fatal car accident in Watson's novel. Also just reissued in paperback is Watson's 1980 novel ``In a Dark Time'' ($14), about a teacher who becomes obsessed with a string of murders.

* ``London'' by Edward Rutherfurd (Fawcett Crest, $7.99)

In this 1,124-page novel, Rutherfurd spans 2,000 years of English history.

* ``Asylum'' by Patrick McGrath (Vintage, $12)

In McGrath's gothic thriller, the wife of a psychiatrist at a maximum-security mental hospital falls under the spell of a murderous sculptor.

* ``Just Desserts: The Unauthorized Biography of Martha Stewart'' by Jerry Oppenheimer (Avon, $6.99)

Oppenheimer's nasty tell-all presents a Martha Stewart who is far from perfect.

* ``The Only Way I Know'' by Cal Ripken Jr. (Penguin, $12.95)

The autobiography of the Baltimore Oriole who broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive-game record.

* ``News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century'' by Pete Hamill (Library of Contemporary Thought-Ballantine, $12.50, paperback original)

Hamill, a veteran newspaperman, takes a critical look at newspapers in the latest book in the new Library of Contemporary Thought series.

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