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★★★☆☆ From Baltimore Punk clubs to the ruddy streets of pre-reunification East Berlin, All Tomorrow’s Parties follows Rob Spillman’s search for creative authenticity and inspiration in the music and literature around him. Having spent...
★★★★★ As a child, Hope Jahren spent hours in her father’s science laboratory, and from her mother she inherited a love of language. These earliest influences find an auspicious union in Lab Girl, Jahren’s...
★★★★☆ Timothy Egan’s The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero is a captivating biography of Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) and his indispensable contributions to Irish-American identity. Meagher’s incredible life is...
★★★★☆ In 1911, baseball was transforming itself from the dead ball era to a more modern, open game. The introduction of the cork-centered ball in 1910 resulted in hits that traveled farther and faster....
★★★★★ Thank you, Louis Rubin, professor of English Literature at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina and founder of Algonquin Books. Lee Smith has fulfilled the talent you saw in her: “But...
★★★★☆ In 1973, on his first visit to Britain, Bill Bryson landed a job at a psychiatric hospital and married a nurse there. It was a serendipitous visit and, after a brief return to...
At 32-years-old and married with one child, Jeremy Collins heard the voice that whispers to us all – settle down, work harder, buy a bigger house and a better car… grow up. But Jeremy...
★★★★☆ An “untimely blurt” about considering suicide while on the telephone with a friend leads to the arrival of police at her apartment in Chicago. Jessa Crispin was in a rut, constrained by the...
★★★★☆ The Deep South is a conundrum. It is what it always was and what it can be and often is. It is a world of opposites. There is grinding poverty, as bleak as...
