Book briefs
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Bragg to read, sign new book Anniston native Rick Bragg will sign copies of his new book, The Prince of Frogtown, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Books-A-Million, 900 Quintard Drive in Oxford. Bragg will also read excerpts from the book. — From staff reports Living with the Arctic animals The caribou might be majestic and the ancient Gwich'in people dependent on them for survival, but when it comes to the oil under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — for what experts say would supply the United States for no more than a year — "the bottom line for voters ... is cheap gas," a congressional aide told Karsten Heuer. Or is it? In Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot With an Arctic Herd (Milkweed Editions, $15), the wildlife biologist makes a case against drilling with a gripping, cinematic tale of following the refuge's herd of 120,000 bulls, cows and just-born calves on a 900-mile migration across the tundra in the spring and summer of 2003. — Kristina Lindgren, Los Angeles Times
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