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For your mid-week reading, here are some handpicked titles from our New Books section.
Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson: “In 2007, a stranger-than-fiction multibillion-dollar bidding war for the world’s oldest futures exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), erupted between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Atlanta’s IntercontinentalExchange (ICE).” (November 1st)
Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature’s Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes by Bill Peschel: “This book contains 200 stories and anecdotes about the highs and lows in the lives of famous authors, including Hemingway, Faulkner, Plath, Ginsburg, Fitzgerald, Poe, Twain, Mencken and more.” (November 2nd)
Mirror written & illustrated by Jeannie Baker: “Two cultures, two stories, one unique book. An innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village.” (November 9th)
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