Books Archives
Three Minutes on Love, Roccie Hill - CONSUMER WARNING: “Trance” starts strong. Not surprising.
Tim O'Brien: In the Lake of the Woods - Red, White, Blue: I'm hitting the SEND button from Ely, Minnesota --- from the Lake of the Woods.
Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried - I read Tim O'Brien's "In the Lake of the Woods" every few years.
Tinkers, Paul Harding - The winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was Olive Kitteridge.
Tintin, Hergé - At some point in the mid-1970s, I decided that the comic book tales of “Tintin” should become a movie, and I launched inquiries into the r
Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything, Kevin Cook - Sometimes what you want most from a book is to be able to sit back in a comfortable chair, smokes and drinks and snacks near at hand, and have someone
To a Mountain in Tibet, Colin Thubron - Over the decades, I’ve read the chapter in “The Way of the White Clouds” about the trek around Tibet’s Mount Kailas so often t
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - I never thought I'd see the day when the lawyer who argued Brown v.
To My Dearest Friends, Patricia Volk - On the surface, “To My Dearest Friends” is nothing more than a breezy, chatty, 187-pager about three privileged Manhattan women. One i
To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick - Direct and enigmatic, profound and embarrassingly simple, originating in China in 520 CE, Zen Buddhism has taken root in American culture in the las
Toot & Puddle - Forty years ago, a young illustrator with the unlikely name of Holly Hobbie created a little girl who looked like rag doll.
Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy, Patricia Wells - I have been using Bistro Cooking, Patricia Wells' book of simple French recipes, for several decades now.  So what stopped me from buying her b
Travels, Michael Crichton - Michael Crichton I knew him oh-so-slightly. We shared a dinner or two with the art crowd.
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, Seth Godin - Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us Seth Godin If American Express had said yes, you wouldn't be reading this.
Trouble, Kate Christensen - Her fourth novel won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award, just in case you are, on the basis of Trouble, not inclined to take Kate Christensen seriously.
True Crime: An American Anthology, edited by Harold Schechter - True Crime: An American Anthology edited by Harold Schechter Well, not crime, if by crime you mean arson and rape and
Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Joan Schenkar - Dorothy "Dolly" Wilde was five years old when her uncle Oscar died in 1900 at the age of 46.
Truth, Peter Temple - Laurie doesn’t see him, so Steve Villani is able to study his wife as she walks toward him. Jeans, black leather jacket, thinner, different hair
Turning Tables, Heather and Rose MacDowell - One of my friends once had every job imaginable in a three-star restaurant. On the side, she worked parties for the mega-rich.
Twelve Months of Monastery Salads, Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette - I learned about food preparation from a very talented mother who tended to overdo things.