THE COLOR OF ROCK As a stuffy retired academic curmudgeon, I have an old-fashioned notion of what a university press should publish. Namely, any book
About Us | Book Reviewers & Contributors What happens when the bookstore closes? Of course I knew I’d miss handling all those books on a
SWEET PROMISED LAND AND ROBERT LAXALT, THE STORY OF A STORYTELLER Aside from Mark Twain’s Roughing It, Robert Laxalt’s, Sweet Promised Land (1957, 2007) is
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2019 It is February, the shortest month of the year. You know what that means, dear readers. It is Black History Month.
Carol and John Steinbeck, Portrait of a Marriage I’d been on a Steinbeck jag (reviewing Steinbeck’s Ghost, rereading The Long Valley, browsing through Harvest Gypsies, and finally reading
The Ox-Bow Man, A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Ox-Bow Man is the biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark, a man who loved
Friendly Fallout 1953 is a curious combination of fiction and fact, a literary effort to bring together, under one cover, the topics of nuclear weapons,
The Rise of the Red Queen Normally I avoid reviewing books written by friends, so I didn’t write a “Bookin’ for Sunny” piece about Bourne
The Burning Hour Reading The Burning Hour reminds me of sitting outside on an arid Nevada afternoon, when thunderheads build over the mountains and hot,
Reading a good poem is like having an intimate conversation. It engages us in moments of rare beauty, and it doesn’t mask truths that are
ALMOST SOMEWHERE You might reasonably expect Almost Somewhere: Twenty-eight Days on the John Muir Trail to be a trail guide, a documentary instruction booklet on how to
The Rural Lives of Nice Girls, Poems New and Selected Reno’s own Poet Laureate, Gailmarie Pahmeier, held an open house yesterday at Sundance Books &
Where Light Comes and Goes. Medicine and more with Dr. Abby Wilmore, this time at Yosemite National Park. When I reviewed the first book in
Gutenberg’s Apprentice While it is difficult to overemphasize the importance of moveable type and Gutenberg’s impact on the creation of the modern world, letterpress printing
Atomic Comics, Cartoonists confront the Nuclear World Atomic Comics is the 2013 winner of the ALAs “Choice Outstanding Academic Title” award. I read it in
WELCOME TO MARTHA L. HILDRETH, OUR NEWEST REVIEWER Bookin’ with Sunny is happy to announce Martha Hildreth, its newest member of our team. From
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