September 12, 2010

Alas, Watching the World Change did not make September 10’s Huffington Post’s “Flashlight Worthy” column, which offered a list of the 9 Best Books about 9/11. I agree with all of the choices made by reviewers Peter Steinberg and Eric Mueller (especially Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower and Maira Kalman’s classic children’s book, Fireboat, which my wife published, at Putnam’s).

But would it have hurt them to list the 10 best books? If so, in addition to mine, I would have added two other choices for serious consideration:

--Here is New York (Scalo), the definitive photographic collection

--Portraits 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from The New York Times (Times Books)

MISCELLANY.... A 9/11 App?! Check out this New York Times piece about a Lower Manhattan walking tour that offers audio testimonies.