Lorrie Moore has some instructions on how to read her new book
"See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary" by Lorrie Moore, Knopf. 432 pp. $29.95 The moment has arrived: Lorrie Moore has a new book. Since the publication of her first story...
View ArticleBook Notes: A confusing time for feminism
“Don’t Call Me Princess: Girls, Women, Sex, and Life” By Peggy Orenstein. Harper, 2018, New York. 378 pages. $16.99.In the introduction to her newly published collection of essays, “Don’t Call Me...
View ArticleBook Notes: Take dysfunction and add a dose of Alaska winter
“The Great Alone” By Kristin Hannah. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2018. $28.99. 440 pages.No one really knows how they’ll perform until they’re tested. You can load up the backpack, for example, you...
View ArticleBook review: ‘Southern Storm’ chronicles aftermath of Southern Airways Flight...
Professional pilots such as Rick Erwin study plane crashes to learn how to understand and avoid what may have led to the disaster.One incident Erwin has become an expert on is the events that led to...
View ArticleShe wrote a children's book defending her husband's dignity
Grace Verardo, 3, came home one day from preschool and told her mother: "Someone said Daddy is gross."Sarah Verardo spun into action. Her husband's war injuries were having a broader effect on her...
View ArticleBook Notes: The hunt for a killer, soon to be found
“I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer” By Michelle McNamara. HarperCollins, 2018. 328 pages. $27.99The true crime book, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One...
View ArticleBook review: Former big leaguer helps current players envision positive results
Whether a Little Leaguer or a professional, most former ballplayers have at least one moment from their playing days they wish they could take back.For Bob Tewksbury it was the hit he surrendered to...
View ArticleWoodward book puts White House back in damage-control mode
WASHINGTON (AP) — An incendiary tell-all book by a reporter who helped bring down President Richard Nixon set off a firestorm in the White House on Tuesday, with its descriptions of current and former...
View ArticleBen Montgomery’s ‘Man Who Walked Backward’ lets readers step into history
“The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer’s Search for Meaning in the Great Depression” by Ben Montgomery, Little, Brown Spark. 304 pp. $28Did Plennie Wingo make any progress going backward?...
View ArticleFor kids, books that explore immigration, war and other thorny issues
A young woman in a skirt of bright flaming feathers, small baby in her arms, crosses a bridge of place and language to become something new in a new home. Everything is strange and bewildering at first...
View ArticleBook review: An unknown past
“A Dead Man Running” by Steve Hamilton, (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 288 pages, $28)Alex McKnight would rather be at home in the Upper Peninsula, sitting at the Glasgow Inn, drinking a real Molson, or plowing...
View ArticleBook Notes: The frustration of having no path to citizenship
“Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” By Jose Antonio Vargas. Dey Street Books, New York City, 2018. $25.99.Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has been living as an...
View ArticleAt 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that's also eerily...
"The Fox," by Frederick Forsyth, Putnam, 286 pp., $28 In 1971, Frederick Forsyth, then a freelance reporter in need of cash, published his first novel, "The Day of the Jackal." His tale of a plot to...
View ArticleMichael Connelly's latest novel brings Harry Bosch a cold case and a...
"Dark Sacred Night" by Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, 433 pp., $29 Harry Bosch has had plenty of partners, but he might have met his match.In his long career as a Los Angeles detective in 20...
View ArticleJeff Kinney takes ‘Wimpy Kid’ from page to stage
Wimpy isn't the word you would use to describe a Jeff Kinney book tour. The latest tour for the author of the best-selling "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books began Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts. After a...
View ArticleNovelist Alexander McCall Smith: ‘I love writing people’s conversations’
Alexander McCall Smith — overachiever, master of the understatement — sounds a bit apologetic as he explains that he has lost track of the number of books he’s written. “I actually really stopped...
View ArticleA century after the end of World War I, a new look at lost masterpieces of...
A century ago, the four-year-long nightmare eventually called World War I finally came to a halt on Nov. 11, 1918. That date now goes by several names — Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day —...
View ArticlePursuing literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’
"A Ladder to the Sky" by John Boyne, Hogarth. 362 pp. $27 I'm embarrassed by how much I enjoyed John Boyne's wicked new novel, "A Ladder to the Sky." It's an addictive Rubik's Cube of vice that keeps...
View ArticleWilco’s Jeff Tweedy pens memoir, but says ‘I’m just getting started’
Jeff Tweedy has never been a fan of the rock star memoir. He admits he’s not well-versed in the genre. “They never appealed to me for some reason — I don’t know why,” he says. “I’m sure there are a lot...
View ArticleMemoir writer hunts for lost memories
‘The Day That Went Missing,’ by Richard Beard “The Day That Went Missing” by Richard Beard, Little, Brown. 280 pp. $27When I was 9 years old, my oldest brother died in an accidental drowning. That was...
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