Book Review:
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco)
With her 1975 album, Horses, Patti Smith burst onto the rock world and immediately became the high priestess of the then-emerging punk scene, while at the same time helping reshape the image of women in rock into one that artfully combined both power and poetry.
Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler
It’s been four and a half decades since Anne Tyler, then aged 22, released her first novel, If Morning Ever Comes.
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert
Most people know Elizabeth Gilbert from the book Eat Pray Love, but the writer had already established an impressive track record before that phenomenally successful memoir.
Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett (Nan A. Talese)
National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Haslett’s new book may seem like it is ripped out of today’s headlines, especially those to be found in the current business sections.
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Popular and award-winning novelist and essayist Nick Hornby, of High Fidelity and About a Boy fame, has regularly written about popular music and included it as an important theme in his novels.
Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
The holiday season and the end of the year are often times for reflection and reassessment and for books that explore issues like faith, community, and some of life’s greater mysteries and questions.
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
In recent years a growing combination of issues ? including factory farming, environmental concerns, animal rights activism, the local, slow and raw food movements and more ? have lead many to examine the relationship between man and beast, particularly when they meet at the dinner table, and not as equally-invited guests.
Sunflower Sampler by the Junior League of Wichita
With the holidays almost upon us, cooks everywhere begin to contemplate favorite dishes and new treats
The Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore?s first prize for writing came at the age of 19 when she won a fiction contest in Seventeen magazine.
Spooner by Pete Dexter and Last Night In Twisted River by John Irving
Two award-winning contemporary novelists have much in common, including, it seems, some striking parallels to be found in the new novels each has written.
Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Following the best-selling memoir, The Glass Castle, which chronicled her eccentric and nomadic childhood, author and gossip columnist Jeannette Walls returns to the goldmine of her family history for what she calls a ?true life novel? based on her grandmother.
I Sold Any Warhol (Too Soon) by Richard Polsky
As Charles Dickens once wrote: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
Stitches by David Small
David Small has won rave reviews over the past three decades for work that has appeared in some 40 books, the New Yorker, the New York Times and many other national publications.
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
Historical fiction is often a painful and awkward fusion of prose and past events.
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Though Colm Toibin was raised in Ireland, his interests and work took him variously to Spain, Argentina, Sudan, Egypt and, more recently, America.
