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Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure is the story of Jacoby Pines, a disheartened American who arrives in Italy on holiday and decides he never wants to leave. What follows is a wine-soaked, food-filled, travel-laden adventure about one man’s quest for an antiquated…
We go long stretches without hearing anything from him at all. Then something happens that kicks up his name again, and we all chatter about him. But as it turns out, he really doesn’t care. We’re talking about Jonathan Franzen, of course….
The story of four old friends reuniting to contemplate their 60th birthdays turns into a marvelous, magical mystery tour with plenty of surprises and laughs along the way. An enchanting exploration of aging, art, philosophy, feminism, and motherhood, written with style and…
As November and National Novel Writing Month zoom towards us, author Sam Wiebe makes a case for economy with a push on the art of the short story and #ShortStoryReadingMonth, a initiative he’s made on Twitter. In a Facebook post a few…
The next Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel will be 1937’s Death on the Nile. Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman, Justice League) has been tapped to star and the project is moving full steam ahead with release planned for late 2019….
Chupacabra Meets Billy the Kid (University of Oklahoma Press) is the third installment in Rudolfo Anaya’s ChupaCabra series, following up on 2006’s Curse of the ChupaCabra and ChupaCabra and the Roswell UFO from 2008. The stalwart protagonist of the series, Rosa Medina,…
Two new titles out from Orca Books are aimed at helping kids deal with grief and death, albeit in very different ways. In After Life: Ways We Think About Death, author Merrie-Ellen Wilcox demystifies many of the things our culture has thrown…
Overall, fans report, the film version of Crazy Rich Asians was very faithful to the book. And, in spirit at least, the recently released movie based on Kevin Kwan’s 2013 debut novel stays very true to the book. But there are significant…
Want to be a better human? Read a book. A recent article on NBC News’ Better lays it all out: Whether you’re the reader who rips through a new book each week or the one still slogging through that bestseller your friend…
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje has been awarded the Golden Man Booker Award. From the Man Booker news site: The winner of this special one-off award for the Man Booker Prize’s 50th anniversary celebrations was chosen by the public. All 51…