New Orleans Comes Alive in City of a Million Dreams
OnI grew up in New Orleans in the 1960s, and I left in 1990. As I write this, it occurs to me that I have spent almost as much time away from the city as I did in it. I miss it,…
Category: Tony Buchsbaum
New CD from Dear Evan Hansen Actor
OnIt’s possible you’ve never heard of Michael Lee Brown, but you’re about to—and I don’t mean just here. Michael appears on Broadway at least twice a week, and his first CD was released recently. It’s sure to be the first of…
New Fiction: Need To Know by Karen Cleveland
OnOf the new novel, Need to Know (Ballantine), thriller writer Lee Child said, “If you read chapter one, you’ll read chapter two. If you read chapter two, you’ll miss dinner, stay up far too late, and feel tired at work tomorrow.” As…
Fiction: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
OnIn Chloe Benjamin’s luminous new novel, The Immortalists (Putnam), four siblings, all children, seek out a woman who, they’ve heard, can tell each of them the day they will die. Not how, but when. A casual few words: a month, a day,…
Making Spaces: Two Prominent Architects Who Are the Same… and Very Different
OnFrank Lloyd Wright designed houses and buildings from 1886 to 1959. Thomas Heatherwick established his design studio in London in 1984 and is still working. The two could not be more different, except in my mind there are key similarities. Both men changed…
Fiction: Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones
OnWhen I read The String Diaries earlier this year, I was simply amazed. I’d expected a thriller. What I didn’t expect was something as exceptionally well-written. Stephen Lloyd Jones, a British marketing executive, has managed to create a tight, sometimes ultra-violent tale…
Events: BookExpo and BookCon 2015
OnEvery year, thousands of people in the book business gather at the premier industry trade show, BookExpo. This year’s event, held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, was expanded for two days afterward by the consumer-friendly BookCon. The BookExpo…
Art & Culture: Streisand: In the Camera Eye
OnAlmost from the moment she appeared on the scene in the early 1960s, Barbra Streisand had been a icon. At first, she was a curiosity. How could a skinny girl from Brooklyn with a stubborn nose and slightly crossed eyes ever make…
Cookbook: Madeleines by Barbara Feldman Morse
OnI’m a sucker for a good cookie, and I’m always looking for new things to bake. Madeleines are my new passion, and Madeleines: Elegant French Tea Cakes to Bake and Share (Quirk Books) by Barbara Feldman Morse is the book I’ve been using in…
Art & Culture: Star Wars Art: Posters
OnYes, I know: Who needs another book about Star Wars? Well, it turns out I did, and maybe you do too. Because Star Wars Art: Posters (Harry N. Abrams) is a different kind of Star Wars book. We all know that George Lucas’…