Author, novelist, journalist and intellectual Amos Oz died in Tel Aviv on Friday at the age of 79. His daughter, Fania Oz-Salzberger, announced that he had died “in his sleep, peacefully,” after a short battle with cancer. Born Amos Klausner, Oz changed his name to the Hebrew word for “courage” when he embraced Zionism at the age of 14. He was the author of 40 books published in 45 languages and was widely celebrated in his […]
Though the story of Christmas was pulled from many sources, writing for The Guardian, Kathryn Hughes reminds us that “Christmas was pulled together, codified, made visible in story and painted in sound by Dickens who dashed down A Christmas Carol in six weeks in the autumn of 1843.” The book, published on 19 December of that year, famously tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old miser who is given a chance to redeem […]
A lot of words are written every year about football. A lot. We’re talking NFL here. Oblong American ball. Pigskin and bruises. Quarterbacks in particular. And how they stack up. The stars of the game are ranked by all sorts of things. Size. Talent. Stats. Stuff that matters. Stuff that counts. The rankings we see are not generally based on popularity. And why would they be? Popularity and likability are subjective. These are professional athletes, […]
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 existence in the modern world. You can order Cucina Tipica here. Visit author Andrew Cotto on the web here. ◊ This Just In… is a column that shares basic information on selected […]
Want to get away from the everyday? We look back at a 2017 list of “17 Places Book Lovers Need to Visit” from Conde Nast Traveler. The magazine deems this nearly half score of getaway spots to be ones “that seem to have been made specifically for the literary minded, including charming bookstores in Paris, quirky hotels in Japan, and beautiful monasteries in Prague.” And it’s a gorgeous list, including a bookstore created inside a […]
Shirley Jackson, best known as the author of The Lottery, a short story, and the novel The Haunting of Hill House, was born on this day in 1916. According to an article put together by The New Indian Express, “much like her mystery-filled stories, Jackson’s life had an eerie quality to it, too.” If that makes you wonder just how eerie, the article doesn’t disappoint. Filled with facts culled from the 2016 biography Shirley Jackson: […]
Once Upon A Chef (Chronicle Books) is yet another cookbook based on cookery from a successful food blogger. And, in a way, it only makes sense. If a food blogger has thousands or hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers, it follows she’s going to sell some books. And if, as is the case with Once Upon A Chef’s author Jennifer Segal, the blogger in question is also a classically trained chef who also […]
Like everything, it seems, Christmas has gotten to be somewhat controversial. And then there always appear to be people around telling us we’re doing it wrong: that we don’t know the true meaning or that the essence has been lost in a lot of shopping and hoopla or that we didn’t get it right in the first place. If any of this is true, in Christmas: from Solstice to Santa (Orca Origins) then authors Nikki […]
“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.” — Colette Keira Knightley finds herself in a very different kind of period piece in Colette, directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, The Last of Robin Hood) and based on the life of the French writer Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, better known, of course, as Colette. From Deadline, where Knightly also talks about how she came to take the title role: After earning two Oscar […]
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