SAN FRANCISCO, A MAP OF PERCEPTIONS Andrea Ponsi’s San Francisco: A Map of Perceptions is a small, lovely gem – or, perhaps, a handful of
David Malouf’s novel, Harland’s Half Acre, features an Australian artist with surrealistic talent. Writing about Frank Harland, Malouf himself depicts his art and his settings
2015 Gift Books for the Guys in Your Life Taken from Neal Ferguson’s reviews for bookinwithsunny.com Bill Bryson’s One Summer, America, 1927 – Anchor Books
AMERICAN HEIRESS: THE WILD SAGA OF THE KIDNAPPING, CRIMES AND TRIAL OF PATTI HEARST A lawyer by training and a writer by profession, Jeffrey Toobin
MAUD MARTHA I don’t even know when I bought Maud Martha or what it was that made me finally pull it off my shelf to read back
ANGLE OF REPOSE Because it is a new year doesn’t mean a reviewed book has to be new. If Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose hadn’t
THE BEAUTY AND LONG LIFE OF POETRY – After Rain a Little Girl Straightening Worms The poems in this collection are selected from a lifetime
WILD BLUEBERRIES It has been a long time since a memoir has brought me such laughter and warmth. Peter Damm, now a resident of Berkeley,
A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography My dictionary does not include “ecobiography,” nor does spellcheck recognize the word. But one definition of “eco” is “not harmful
The vortex exists, and poetry is one place to find it. It is a phenomenon that occurs when a single image triggers a memory from
MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE The Poem: February by Margaret Atwood Winter and time to eat fat and watch hockey. In the pewter mornings, the cat,
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