The Man Booker Prize might be my favorite of the big literary awards… don’t tell the National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize committees! I suppose I still look to the Mother Country for some important things, such as royal babies,…
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The vote for Scottish independence will be held on September 18th, and emotions are running high across the Pond. For a long time it seemed that the vote wouldn’t even be close, with a significant majority of Scots inclined to remain united…
Regular Bacon Contributor Patricia Eastwood keeps her feet on the ground, but she’s always got her eyes on the sky. When she and Larry were married, the groom’s cake (made by the pastry chef at the Atlanta Athletic Club) featured all of…
In Joshua Ferris’s latest novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (recently long-listed for the Man Booker Award), a dentist protagonist asks the big questions we all sometimes ponder: what is the meaning of life, and what is the meaning…
We read some books because of the buzz, right? The Boys in the Boat or Unbroken. Gone Girl or The Goldfinch. If you’re on the fence about the latest somewhat buzzy book, Edan Lepucki’s California – maybe wait for the movie. Alternatively,…
University School of Nashville math teacher and all-round great guy Joel Bezaire recommended some summer reading for me a while back: The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa. I’ve since learned that Ogawa’s novel is also the Harpeth Hall…
A free range reader takes chances on new authors, new genres, old classics, and books with great covers. Sometimes these choices lead to brilliant discoveries! But the free range reader sometimes buys a book in haste or confusion, leading to distressing…
Summer comes to a screeching halt for many of the kids in Nashville tomorrow, but it doesn’t have to come to an end for you! It’s still in the 90’s, for heavens sake. Turn up the AC and turn off your phone…
That novel is the story of your life – from childhood’s awakenings, miseries, and joys, through the muddle in the middle, to the moment you breathe your last. Every life has the deepest, truest, most fundamental requirement of a story:…