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★★★★☆ 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...
★★★★☆ Writing Across the Landscape is a bountiful book covering the travels of Lawrence Ferlinghetti from 1960 until 2010, more than half the life of this remarkable 96-year old man. Time, as one can...
★★★☆☆ Speak of cannibalism in America and two names come to mind: the Donner Party and Alfred Packer. History has proven that, except for starvation and eating the dead, nothing untoward happened to the...
Etgar Keret’s memoir, The Seven Good Years, is worth reading more than once. Keret has written a perfectly balanced book, both thoughtful and funny. The book is organized by years, with several essays to...
With The Wright Brothers, historian David McCullough has transformed one of the most important chapters of world history into a perfect and succinct volume that effortlessly captures the era’s commitment to their dreams. Borrowing...
Luke Mann was 13-years-old when his brother Josh overdosed on heroin. He opens Lord Fear, a memoir of his brother’s life, at Josh’s funeral because, “I once read a Philip Roth novel that begins...
Win a signed copy of Willie Nelson’s autobiography in June’s book giveaway. I grew up with Willie Nelson. My dad moved our family from Poughkeepsie, New York to Austin, Texas in the mid-1970s, when...
When her father died suddenly, the world stopped making sense to Helen Macdonald. “A kind of madness drifted in,” she recalls. “Time didn’t run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could...
