Books Archives
Charles Dickens/Jesse Kornbluth: A Christmas Carol - A year ago, I decided our daughter was ready for me to read to her --- the week before Christmas, sitting by a crackling fire --- a version of &ldquo
Charles Gwathmey (1938-2009) - A man I love died the other day, and like a lot of people who knew Charles Gwathmey, I’m having trouble using the past tense about him.
Charles Gwathmey: 'Vision is the art of seeing things invisible' - A funeral and a memorial service just hours apart --- that’s an unusual day.
Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood, Charlotte Silver - Guest Butler Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels and The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers.
Cheri and The Last of Cheri by Colette - Today we have “cougars” --- older women, veterans of so much plastic surgery they seem to be lifted by cranes, who endured that surgery so
Chick Lit? Women's Literature? Why Not Just....Literature?, Diane Meier - A line I wrote the other day struck a nerve, and a reader responded. And not just a smart, sensitive soul.
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke - It's probably the greatest opening in all of science fiction.
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children , Elisabeth Young-Bruehl - I thought I was doing a dead writer and her friend a favor.
Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen, Clotilde Dusoulier - We may like to think that French women are genetically inclined to greatness in the kitchen. Clotilde Dusoulier is proof they're not.
Christmas in Paris, 2002, Ronald Fried - I worked with Ron Fried on Tina Brown's "views magazine" on CNBC for about a year and a half.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City, Jonathan Fineberg and Wolfgang Volz -   Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to The Gates, Central Park, New York City by Jonathan Fineberg  and Wolfgang Volz One very go
Chronicles, Bob Dylan - "Lou Levy, top man of Leeds Music Publishing company, took me up in a taxi to the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street to show me the pocket sized
Churchill, Paul Johnson - Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, both good and evil, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity, and also the most likab
Cider Beans, Wild Greens, and Dandelion Jelly: Recipes from Southern Appalachia, Joan E. Aller - “My place, in the midst of this abundance of nature, is back in a mountain hollow on a bad dirt road surrounded by forest, wild blackberries, mo
City Secrets: New York City, Robert Kahn (editor) - Almost every afternoon, as I go to collect the kid at school, I run into a foreign couple at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 94th Street.
Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris, Clotilde Dusoulier - There's always a Parisian who sees her city with wide-eyed romanticism --- and finds gold in that innocence.  As Clotilde Dusolier walked her cit
Coffinman, Shinmon Aoki - In Japan, there's no job lower than washing corpses and putting them in coffins.
Colette - Sir,      You ask me to come and spend a week with you, which means I would be near my daughter, whom I adore.
Columbine, Dave Cullen - Dave Cullen has a piece in The New York Times urging us not to draw conclusions too quickly about James Holmes, who killed a dozen people and wounded
Come Back, Claire and Mia Fontaine - The cover shows a little girl, aloft. Her mother's open hands are at the bottom of the photograph. It's a lovely, joyous picture.