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…
Mary Jo Shankle, my friend and neighbor, keeps it real and makes me laugh. She claims that her special talent is knowing when to turn off the rice. “Seriously, I have an instinct. I am also very good at intuiting…
My dear husband has been humoring me for a long time. At our otherwise very traditional wedding, I insisted that one of my friends read from a poem by Michelangelo about death. (Said poem really had no place in a nice…
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,…