Thomas Murphy “Have I told you about this?” That is Thomas Murphy speaking. They are the first words out of his mouth and, as a
Myrna Loy The Only Good Girl in Hollywood is the first formal biography of the popular star famous for the six Thin Man films made
Hands down, Bull Rider is the best all around family read that I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing this year. Suzanne Morgan Williams has written
Okay all you John Backderf fans, here’s the book tour schedule for My Friend Dahmer: MY FRIEND DAHMER | BOOK TOUR 2012 Weds., April 4,
Old Jules and East of Eden meet William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. Czech family tensions in rural America. Brothers and bad blood. Pulsing, metaphoric prose.
To kids growing up in the 1950’s, the name Mary Martin meant just one thing: Peter Pan. This was a television re-creation of the 1954
This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to
Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 Although my professional life as a historian has been devoted almost exclusively to
Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman The American Civil War lives on in our imaginations. A few of the war’s events can
There’s something strangely familiar about Dan Simmons’ Drood. In mid-nineteenth century England Charles Dickens and William Wilkie Collins were successful writers and good friends. They
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Virginia Woolf, writing A Room of One’s Own, invented a sister for Shakespeare. Judith Shakespeare,
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession Soon after I learned
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance An appellation articulated and coined in the twenty-first century, “bromance” well describes Gyles Brandreth’s recent novel about
Pope Francis Among the Wolves, The Inside Story of a Revolution While attending the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show back in October, I
The Big Rewind The Big Rewind is a murder mystery set among New York’s plugged-in media crazy hipsters. You could argue that hipster is an obsolete
Still Night in L.A. The techniques employed by a talented minimalist poet in order to craft a work of fiction are well worth discussing. Aram
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