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'A Christmas Carol' & Beyond: Shorter books, please! - The writer I used to be would be appalled by the writer I have become.
A butcher.
Back in the days before you could get credit at Harvard for t
'Gatsby,' F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Murphys: Amanda Vaill connects the dots - The budget of the movie was $105 million, and as the May 10 opening of Baz Lurhmann’s 3-D adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” approache
2182 Kilohertz, David Masiel - I've just read a stunning news item: So much of the Arctic ice cover has disappeared “that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe's most n
A Million Little Pieces, James Frey - I am old enough to have lost friends to drugs and alcohol addiction.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Peter Handke - The Sunday edition of the Kärnter Volkszeitung carried the following item under 'Local News': 'In the village of A. (G.
A Stranger Like You, Elizabeth Brundage - Hugh Waters has a problem --- no, Hugh Waters is a problem.
He’s the original nowhere man: dead-end job at an insurance company, childless
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan -
Jennifer Egan won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Now she’s added the Pulitzer Prize.
You would be entirely forgiven if th
Abide With Me, Sabin Willett - Guest Butler Laura Harrington is an award-winning playwright, lyricist and librettist, and the author of Alice Bliss, a novel I love a lot.
About the Author: A Novel, John Colapinto - There are evenings when the invite to the duchess’s ball didn’t arrive and there’s nothing on TV, not even a black-and-white film on
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Jean Rhys - I was having dinner with Judy Resnick, the author of I'm On My Own, And So Are You: Financial Security for Women, and a mutual friend who is
Alan Furst: Blood of Victory - Countries need oil for blood, steel for bone, rubber for feet. And in wartime, even more so. Think back to your American History courses.
Alan Furst: Dark Voyage, Alan Furst - I spent my free moments this week reading my favorite kind of book --- one you can't put down.
Alan Furst: Mission to Paris - If you have a deadline looming or even a busy week, the absolute last thing you want to do is crack open “Mission to Paris” and think you&
Alan Furst: Spies of the Balkans - It’s a bittersweet day around here when a new Alan Furst novel arrives.
On the plus side: I get to spend an entire day reading about 1939 or 194
Alan Furst: The Foreign Correspondent - The reason I have avoided thrillers all my reading life is sex.
The heroes of these books are usually manly men, built on the John Wayne model.
Alan Furst: The Spies of Warsaw - The “spy” is “an ordinary-looking man, who led a rather ordinary life” --- he's a mid-level engineer at a German ironworks, m
Alice Bliss, Laura Harrington - Tell me you wouldn’t react as I did.
The name of the novel is “Alice Bliss.” That is, not surprisingly, the name of the 14-year-old
Alice Bliss, Laura Harrington - Tell me you wouldn’t react as I did.
The name of the novel is “Alice Bliss.” That is, not surprisingly, the name of the 14-year-old
Alice Munro: Dear Life - I did not go home for my mother's last illness or for her funeral. I had two small children and nobody in Vancouver to leave them with.
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque - I'm trying to recall a novel about war that makes it sound like a good thing.