Drama leaps off the page and into the news

Amazon-Hachette feud dominated book news this year

DATE: Dec 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Lena Dunham and the uncertain territory of memoir

Best-selling author and “Girls” creator Lena Dunham is, by her own admission, “an unreliable narrator.” With her best-selling essay collection, Not That Kind of Girl, published th...

DATE: Dec 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

New Munro collection contains masterful prose

Family Furnishings (Alfred A. Knopf), by Alice Munro A year after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature and was cited for her mastery of the modern short story, her publi...

DATE: Dec 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Children’s books that belong under the tree

Here are top picks for young bookworms

DATE: Dec 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Tapping the wisdom of weeds

Durango forager pens book on unlikely edibles

DATE: Dec 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

A U.S. military novel on honor, duty, depravity

Relocation of Native Americans follows a dark path – with sliver of light

DATE: Dec 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Richard Jefferies, rediscovered

Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams to discuss new book project at DAC

DATE: Dec 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Local authors become booksellers for a day

Maria’s to host Indies First event

DATE: Nov 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Reading Harry Potter gives clues to brain activity

WASHINGTON – Reading about Harry Potter’s adventures learning to fly his broomstick activates some of the same regions in the brain we use to perceive real people’s actions and intentions. ...

DATE: Nov 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Calling all members of the Legion of Ska

After two decades, brewery releases comic book

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Sustained by brief blaze of glory

Jerry Lee Lewis has found the ideal biographer in Rick Bragg

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

Exclusive: Letter that inspired Kerouac found

LOS ANGELES – It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre – 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950...

DATE: Nov 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books

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