by Site Owner | May 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Cheryl Strayed Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95, 315 pages If the writer’s job is to tell the truth, as Hemingway once said, then Cheryl Strayed has done her job spectacularly. In Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Strayed recounts the story of her descent...
by Site Owner | May 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Lucette Lagnado Ecco, $25.99, 402 pages Author Lucette Lagnado shares her family’s heartbreaking journey as Jewish refugees from Egypt to their new life in New York in The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth from Cairo to Brooklyn. She begins the...
by Site Owner | May 11, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Bill Zimmerman Doubleday, $28.95, 452 pages Have you ever wondered what kind of person becomes a political activist or whether one person’s actions can make a difference in the complex issues that face our world? Reading Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines...
by Site Owner | May 10, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Ron Rash Ecco, $25.99, 272 pages Author Ron Rash brings the rugged Appalachians to life in his new book The Cove. World War II and its aftermath provide a dramatic backdrop to this multi-faceted peek into a small town in North Carolina in 1917. The Cove tells the...
by Site Owner | Apr 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
By Tom Bissell Believer Books, $14.00, 256 pages Award-winning writer Tom Bissell’s new book, Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation, is a collection of his best stories published over the last decade in magazines such as The New Yorker and Harper’s. In them,...