Books Archive

Disassembly Required: A Memoir of Midlife Resurrection - DISCLOSURE: Beverly Willett found me through Facebook or Butler and asked if I’d look at her manuscript, and I had her send two chapters, and they were so compelling I

Disgrace - Only one writer has ever won England's Booker Prize twice, and the second time J.M. Coetzee won it was for "Disgrace." A few years later, a poll of "literary

Dispatches - When the conversation turns to the military, it's easy to identify the assholes. They want to bomb the shit out of a country they can't find on a map. They

Do I have a hero? Yes. Harry Parker. - You're in a long, narrow boat, with a skin that's just one-sixteenth of an inch thick and oars that extend fifteen feet. It's 5:45 on an October morning in Boston.

Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters: A Practical Guide to Writing Well in the Modern Age - "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,” Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “and some few to be chewed and digested.” Bacon is wonderfully concise. Almost five centuries later,

Dodsworth - William Wyler got his first Oscar nomination for "Dodsworth," launching a 20-year span of remarkable achievement and honors. He's the most nominated director in Academy Awards history, with twelve nominations.

Dominick Dunne: The Two Mrs. Grenvilles - His mother was blueblood Society. His father was a bank president and a friend of the King of England. But privilege spoils. Blood thins. Their son Billy was

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! - So there's this bus driver. With a small problem. "Hi!," he says. "I'm the bus driver. Listen, I've got to leave for a little while, so can you watch things for

Donald Hall - Donald Hall died. In the Times, he got the Great Man obit. He earned it. It is easy to say that Donald Hall is the successor to Robert Frost. His family

Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Across Russia - “I was arrested in Brasov on my way to school,” his book begins. And right there your stomach sinks. Because you know what's coming: a terrible story, told in unadorned

Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora - Miki Dora was born in Budapest in 1934. His parents moved to Los Angeles just a few years after a public road to Malibu was opened and movie stars started

Dorothy Parker - She was a Rothschild --- just not a Rothschild with any link to the rich Rothschilds. Her mother died a month before her fifth birthday, her stepmother died when she was

Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain - Since Anthony Bourdain died on June 8, 2018, he has been Googled ten million times. There have been five million searches about his death, three million about his suicide. Those are

Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival - Video Robert Sabbag recalls the crash I wanted Bob Sabbag to be my friend as soon as I finished reading his first book, Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade. The

Down from Basswood: Voices of the Boundary Waters - In the decade I’ve been publishing this site, I’ve never run a piece about a book that carried the byline of the author. And I’ve never published a piece with

Down Under - Back when Mel Gibson was Mel Gibson, he made some movies on the block where Sonia Taitz lives. Sonia Taitz is married. A mother. Not looking to stray. But…. Mel Gibson. “Imagine

Dreaming in Libro: How A Good Dog Tamed A Bad Woman - I am not a “dog person”. True, I was seen with one for several years in my last marriage because my beloved stepson, who never asked for anything, uttered the

Drink, Play, F@#k: One Man’s Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand - Julia Roberts  --- “America’s Sweetheart” --- is in town, filming “Eat Pray Love”, the mega-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, America’s other sweetheart. The movie should appear in theaters next year,

Drinking: A Love Story - She was running across the street with her best friend's kids on her back when she lost her balance. Her fall was brilliant --- she shielded the kids from smashing

Dylan by Schatzberg - Jerry Schatzberg has been there, done all of that, but it seems the one photograph that will render him immortal is the blurry portrait of Bob Dylan he took for