The funny and fragile times of Bob Hope
Book traces life of extraordinary entertainer
DATE: Jan 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Books
Historical fiction at its finest
A Terrible Unrest brings reader to Colorado’s Ludlow Massacre
DATE: Jan 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Books
South Africa’s high crime rate inspires novelist
JOHANNESBURG – Novelist Angela Makholwa’s fascination with South Africa’s violent crime has made her one of the country’s most popular writers.
Using sharply drawn characters and ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
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
