This is the book I’d want with me if I were ever stranded on a desert island.
"The Thurber Carnival" is a collection of essays, cartoons, short stories and illustrated poems and fables by the late...
It was 1965, I was eight years old, my parents were divorcing and I was staying at my father’s house. His mother, my Nonna, was very unhappy about the divorce and let her displeasure be known in bursts...
Bill McKibben’s new book "Radio Free Vermont" hooked me immediately with its description of determined Vermonters ambushing a Coors Light delivery truck. Not a Coors fan by any means, I had to know why....
The title of this taut psychological thriller is quite apt. In the story, wildly successful author Oliver has committed a shocking, violent crime – beating his devoted wife Alice so brutally that...
"Little Sister" by Barbara Gowdy is definitely one of the weirdest novels I’ve read lately.
Rose Bowan owns and runs the local movie hall with her mother. She has a placid, uneventful life and...
"Mrs. Fletcher" by Tom Perrotta.
Poor Mrs. Fletcher. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her only son goes off to college, she's feeling a bit lost and lonely. Mrs. Fletcher runs into...
The summer reading round-up continues with "Grief Cottage" by Gail Godwin. Eleven-year-old Marcus goes to live with his reclusive Aunt Charlotte after the sudden death of his mother. Aunt Charlotte...
“Summertime, and the reading is easy...”
And easy the reading was, in bounteous sunlight with no worries about getting up early the next day for work. Here are my thoughts on just a few of the books...
Journalist Michael Finkel's book "The Stranger in the Woods" is subtitled "The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit," which I expected to be a bit of hyperbole. People unplug for days and even...
"Rabbit Cake" went from being a book that I almost didn't read to one I'm pestering my friends to give a try.
While I was not initially intrigued by the story – it centers around a young and precocious...
Disturbing. Compelling. Upsetting. Masterful.
I could go on and on about how amazing this novel, "So Much Pretty" by Cara Hoffman, is. The plot is deceptively simple. Wendy White, a cheerful, well-liked...
Chef Marcus Samuelsson’s new cookbook "The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem" is a delightful mélange of recipes, essays, history and photographs celebrating Harlem, a neighborhood...
