Book review: “The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing,” by Ewan Clayton Anyone who loves books will be interested in this book, which tells the story of typography: Writing matters, says Ewan Clayton, calligrapher, former monk, design and media professor and visual consultant to Xerox in Palo Alto, Calif., the folks who made the first […]
In honor of Truman Capote‘s birthday, today’s featured review is In Cold Blood, the book that changed writing forever.
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Happy birthday, Alice Sebold! In honor of the day, here’s a review of her famous novel, The Lovely Bones.
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In honor of Frank McCourt’s birthday, today’s featured review is Angela’s Ashes.
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Disturbances in the Field by Lynne Sharon Schwartz is one of the best novels I’ve ever read.
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Featured Review: The Black Echo In honor of Michael Connelly’s birthday, here’s a review of The Black Echo, that book that introduces Connelly’s franchise series character LAPD detective Harry Bosch.
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Featured Review: Eat, Pray, Love Happy birthday, Elizabeth Gilbert.
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Summerscale, Kate. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian LadyBloomsbury, 2012Hardcover, 303 pages ISBN 978-1-608-19913-6 Recommended Kate Summerscale’s book showcases the precarious position of women in Victorian England. When Isabella Hamilton Walker married Henry Robinson in 1844, she was a 31-year-old widow with a young son. Her first husband had willed his estate to
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Today’s featured review is To Kill a Mockingbird, published on this date in 1960.
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Featured Review: Room by Emma Donoghue In a writer’s group I participate in someone recently asked for recommendations of novels to look at as examples in creating the voice of a child narrator. I’ve always been interested in books with child narrators because I think one of the hardest jobs writers can set for themselves
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