Outer Space, Inner Peace, & Camille Paglia | Nonfiction Previews, Oct. 2018

Decker, Jessie James. Just Jessie: My Guide to Love, Life, Family, and Food. Del Rey: Ballantine. Oct. 2018. 320p. ISBN 9780062851376. pap. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9780062851383. HEALTH & FITNESS Up there in the news as a recording artist and songwriter (remember the No. 1 Billboard country album, Southern Girl City Lights?), plus style entrepreneur and television personality, Decker shares how she keeps healthy along the way. With a 125,000-copy first printing. Fletcher, Seth. Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest To See the Unseeable. Ecco. Oct. 2018. 304p. ISBN 9780062312020. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062312037. ASTRONOMY Chief features editor at Scientific American, Fletcher shows how a group of elite scientists assembled an Earth-sized virtual radio observatory and accomplished the seemingly impossible: they photographed a black hole. Kelly, Scott. Infinite Wonder: An Astronaut's Photographs from a Year in Space. Knopf. Oct. 2018. 320p. ISBN 9781524731847. $40; ebk. ISBN 9780525521624. SPACE SCIENCE Commander Kelly lived for a year in outer space, and he has eye-opening photographs of Earth taken from 250 miles up using a Nikon D4 with a long 800mm lens and a 1.4x magnifying zoom lens, to show what he saw out his window. With a 75,000-copy first printing. Paglia, Camille. Provocations: Collected Essays. Pantheon. Oct. 2018. 784p. ISBN 9781524746896. $35; ebk. ISBN 9781524747619. ESSAYS Iconoclastic cultural critic Paglia (Free Women, Free Men) has been bending our perspective for decades with essays, articles, columns, and interviews. Here’s a comprehensive collection ranging from Picasso to punk rock to presidents past and present, from LGBT activism to how she developed her writing style. RuPaul. GuRu: RuPaul Wisdom. Dey Street: HarperCollins. Oct. 2018. 224p. ISBN 9780062862990. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062863003. HUMOR “You’re born naked and the rest is drag,” says RuPaul, known for the hit reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race and so much more. But this is less about drag than about dumping the identity-based ego and letting the creative energy of the universe flow in. Sounds like inspiration, billed as humor. With a 150,000-copy first printing.  
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