Dana Perino, co-host of the popular Fox News panel show “The Five,” has never taken her success for granted. Throughout her career that started with stints as a local TV ...
Matthew Specktor is aware that his third book about Los Angeles is landing during a fraught time. “The pleasure of making beautiful things and reveling in beautiful things and making ...
At one point in Lydia Millet’s latest collection, “Atavists,” a minor character posits that people “invented time. That it was all at once and everywhere. But minds weren’t able to ...
The logline for Matthew Specktor’s memoir, “The Golden Hour,” could easily imply a Hollywood tell-all. Specktor is the son of a well-connected movie agent, Fred Specktor, which meant he had ...
Hardcover fiction 1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books: $28) An accomplished actor grapples ...
A small town bookstore in Michigan took a novel approach to moving. About 300 residents in the small Michigan city of Chelsea formed a “book brigade” to help move Serendipity ...
In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and ...
At 8:24 p.m. on Nov. 2, 2020, Caroline Darian was a happily married 42-year-old working mother, close to her parents and two brothers, David and Florian, content with a life ...
Back in 2020, I faced the bane of every writer’s existence: a blank page, in an empty notebook. I was starting my first novel for adults in years, and I ...
Among the books I have returned to again and again throughout my life, seeking solace, wisdom, joy or self-understanding, Homer’s “Iliad” ranks very high. As with all enduring works of ...
