Deep South by Paul Theroux
★★★★☆ 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...
Category: Biography & Memoir
Writing Across the Landscape by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
★★★★☆ 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...
Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of An American Cannibal by Harold Schechter
★★★☆☆ 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...
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
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...
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
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...
Lord Fear by Lucas Mann
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...
It’s a Long Story: My Life by Willie Nelson and David Ritz
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...
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
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...
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes captures the measure of the man. From the first letter to the last, a portrait of a complete artist emerges. Hughes was a renowned poet, playwright, and novelist who...
