HOMEGOING — Retrieval of family ties Not since Alex Haley’s Roots have I been so taken by a novel with characters spanning more than three
Wild, From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a memoir of her 1995 solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail,
Originally posted by Lucy Hannau for Lost In Fiction on January 2, 2012 Lucy Hannau interviews bestselling author Gaile Parkin. Gaile Parkin was born and raised in Zambia
Celine Each of Peter Heller’s three novels sends dissimilar characters in wildly diverse directions. Yet there is a thematic consistency between The Dog Stars and
Bound for Gold, William Martin’s sixth Peter Fallon novel. This one is a West Coast page-turner as tasty as it is mysterious, both in the
Deadly Secret of the Lusitania When I was a boy in school, the torpedoing of the Lusitania figured prominently in American history classes about the
RETURN TO SENDER In Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez, popular American novelist whose cultural roots are in the Dominican Republic, has once again turned her depth of
About Us | Book Reviewers & Contributors What happens when the bookstore closes? Of course I knew I’d miss handling all those books on a
Two strangers meet at a bar in the dead of winter: We can’t stop/erasing the ghost between our bodies, leaving//our mouths’ lost words all over/one
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics The Boys in the Boat is
The path traveled to a book worth reviewing can be as circuitous as it can be direct. A friend can tell you about a “must
Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God BUYER BEWARE: I have known Steven Nightingale for several decades and have read his books of sonnets
A PIECE OF THE WORLD Any review of Christina Baker Kline’s novel, A Piece of the World, must begin with Andrew Wyeth’s masterpiece, “Christina’s World.”
Spy of the First Person – Novella? – Memoir? – Narrative prose poem? Sam Shepard’s last work seems to be all three. Maybe a review
Daniel James Brown’s Facing the Mountain, A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, is the rich telling of the plight faced
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