Kansas authorJason Quinn Malott of Wichita has a debut novel out now: “The Evolution of Shadows” (272 pages, $14.95, Unbridled Books). It tells the story of a group of war journalists who return to Sarajevo to try to find out what happened to their friend, photographer Gray Banick, who disappeared in the war zone. Among them is a woman who had an affair with Banick in Kansas City.Railroad historyLouisiana native and rail enthusiast Thad Hillis Carter tells the history of Kansas City Southern Railway in a new book that’s part of the Images of Rail series.Carter grew up riding the passenger trains to Missouri to visit family. “Kansas City Southern Railway” (128 pages, $21.99, Arcadia Publishing) includes newspaper accounts, ads, menus and photographs.Whiting awardsThe Whiting Writers’ Awards, given annually for “exceptional talent and promise in early career,” were announced Wednesday. The recipients include fiction writer Vu Tran, born in Vietnam and now living in Las Vegas, and poet Jay Hopler, a native of Puerto Rico who lives in Tampa, Fla.The other winners are poets Jericho Brown and Joan Kane, playwright Rajiv Joseph, nonfiction authors Michael Meyer and Hugh Raffles, and fiction writers Adam Johnson, Nami Mun and Salvatore Scibona.Notable nonfictionIs there anything left to say about Cuba’s Fidel Castro? Apparently so. Three nonfiction works are new on bookshelves: •“Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship” by Simon Reid-Henry (431 pages, Walker), a thorough, if somewhat airbrushed, dual portrait.•“Fidel and Gabo: A Portrait of the Legendary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez” by Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli (340 pages, Pegasus), an examination of the relationship. •“Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington” by Ann Louise Bardach (352 pages, Scribner), a fast-paced primer on Castro and the future of Cuba.

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Posted on Sat, Oct. 31, 2009 10:15 PM

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Jason Quinn Malott of Wichita has a debut novel out now: “The Evolution of Shadows” (272 pages, $14.95, Unbridled Books).

It tells the story of a group of war journalists who return to Sarajevo to try to find out what happened to their friend, photographer Gray Banick, who disappeared in the war zone. Among them is a woman who had an affair with Banick in Kansas City.

Railroad history

Louisiana native and rail enthusiast Thad Hillis Carter tells the history of Kansas City Southern Railway in a new book that’s part of the Images of Rail series.

Carter grew up riding the passenger trains to Missouri to visit family. “Kansas City Southern Railway” (128 pages, $21.99, Arcadia Publishing) includes newspaper accounts, ads, menus and photographs.

Whiting awards

The Whiting Writers’ Awards, given annually for “exceptional talent and promise in early career,” were announced Wednesday. The recipients include fiction writer Vu Tran, born in Vietnam and now living in Las Vegas, and poet Jay Hopler, a native of Puerto Rico who lives in Tampa, Fla.

The other winners are poets Jericho Brown and Joan Kane, playwright Rajiv Joseph, nonfiction authors Michael Meyer and Hugh Raffles, and fiction writers Adam Johnson, Nami Mun and Salvatore Scibona.

Notable nonfiction

Is there anything left to say about Cuba’s Fidel Castro? Apparently so. Three nonfiction works are new on bookshelves:

•“Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship” by Simon Reid-Henry (431 pages, Walker), a thorough, if somewhat airbrushed, dual portrait.

•“Fidel and Gabo: A Portrait of the Legendary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez” by Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli (340 pages, Pegasus), an examination of the relationship.

•“Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington” by Ann Louise Bardach (352 pages, Scribner), a fast-paced primer on Castro and the future of Cuba.

| Compiled by Lajean Keene, lkeene@kcstar.com

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