Rachel Joyce may not be a household name to American readers yet, but when The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry hits the bookstores this July,
Occasionally I read a book that’s just too short. That’s the problem with Betsy Carter’s The Puzzle King. It could easily be fifty or a
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Richard Russo, has done it again with another insightful and moving generational story. Russo has created a cast of maddeningly wonderful
One of the best things about managing this site is the contact I have with a wide variety of independent bookstore sites. One of my favorites is
Okay readers, remove the snow chains from the car trunk and replace them with your beach umbrella because, weather-gods willing, summer is just around the
Here’s a new kind of review. We feel Amy Ignatow’s The Popularity Papers deserves something special.
A heads-up alert for Kristen Iversen: Full Body Burden Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats I cannot encourage you enough to make
From Mediabistro’s Galley Cat comes this wonderful commencement address by Neil Gaiman at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Gaiman is not only worth reading, he is
I remember my mother reading from her own book of stories written for my brother and me. They were very short tales about Roly Poly,
Just when you thought you’d seen pictures of the most beautiful libraries ever, along comes the following (from today’s Shelf Awareness 5/11/12). http://www.shelf-awareness.com/ct/uz5506116Biz13377607
MR. g Alan Lightman, author of the celebrated Einstein’s Dreams, has taken his latest fiction, Mr. g, even further, inviting the reader into the imagined
“Oh, please don’t go! We’ll eat you up, we love you so!” – Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 6/10/1928 – 5/8/2012 >> More
Sometimes it’s best to hold back on a book review until it fits snugly into certain holidays. Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth is just
Stephen Dau has written a most enigmatic and satisfying novel that delivers a story of loss as publicly broad as it is personally intimate. The
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was recommended by a friend in the book biz: “Have I sent you a copy of …………………?” So there
It should be easy to return a twice-stolen masterpiece – stolen once from a Jewish family by the Nazis and a second time from the
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