Maybe you’ve already got one – a book that takes you to a quiet place no matter what’s going on around you. If not, try Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley. A friend recently put this novel, published fifteen years ago,…
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J.K. Rowling’s latest is perfect for a May graduate and – as a sidenote – might be just the encouragement you need yourself in a harried month. Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination is…
It’s pretty outside – sure – and we’ve got our own special Sunday, but May is a hot mess for mothers with school-age kids. Coping mechanisms include exercise, an extra glass of wine, and complaining. I’ve tried all three over the…
Did you see the interview with Diane Sawyer last night? Check out this Washington Post article for a summary or this Youtube video for 3 minutes of it. I think this counts as a cultural moment as well as a portrait…
I’m changing my plans Friday night based on a poem I just read at chapter16.org called “Bad Dog.” (Don’t worry, Gus – we’ll still have time for wine and vinyl!) But Friday night has to begin at Parnassus at 6:30 with…
Reviewer Madison Smartt Bell, describing this year’s winning novel, seems to think it will inform and enlighten readers, who think of the “members of our polymorphous underclasses… as statistics.” The book will give those readers “a salubrious shock.” Interesting! The…
You’ve either got a taste for the blood-drenched, sexed-up, medieval-flavored political brilliance of Game of Thrones – or you don’t. I figure I’m in good company with Margaret Atwood, who says, “Once sucked in, you stay sucked. Be warned.” I’m also expecting…
If winter has left you feeling more than a little grumpy and cooped up, you might consider one of the fun and fantastical reads in today’s post as we dream of Spring! Mermaids in Paradise, by Lydia Millet, makes the…
“Big Holly” and “Little Holly” lived next door to each other as freshmen at Duke. “I adored her immediately,” says Nashvillian Holly Conner about Holly LeCraw, who grew up in Atlanta. As “token” Southerners, they became fast friends, rooming together sophomore…