IN SHORT

Robert Anasi laments the death of cool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in The Last Bohemia (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Penny Marshall lays blame in My Mother Was Nuts (New Harvest). Kati Marton swoons over Paris, a Love Story (Simon & Schuster). Zadie Smith goes back to her London hood, NW (Penguin), in her new novel. Errol Morris strikes out in A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald (Penguin). Seth Rosenfeld fights the power in Subversives (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Ray Negron and Sally Cook cheer Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers (Liveright). Joe Posnanski scores with Paterno (Simon & Schuster). Lee Woodruff makes her novel debut in Those We Love Most (Voice). Character actor Stephen Tobolowsky turns storyteller in The Dangerous Animals Club (Simon & Schuster). Kurt Eichenwald infiltrates the terror wars in 500 Days (Touchstone). W.W. II consumes Berlin in David Gillham'sCity of Women (Penguin). Stephen Shepard reports on the rocky transition from print to digital in Deadlines and Disruption (McGraw-Hill). Joyce Johnson once again recalls Jack Kerouac in The Voice Is All (Viking). Michael Hulse and Simon Rae compile The 20th Century in Poetry (Pegasus).