Fighting for a more compassionate society
Sister Helen Prejean to speak at event today
DATE: Oct 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
TV pioneer and sitcom king Norman Lear pens a book
NEW YORK – From the moment Norman Lear began writing his memoir, he knew what the first line would be: “When I was a boy I thought that if I could turn a screw in my father’s head just a six...
DATE: Oct 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Review: Book looks at costs of pork production
The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food (Harper), by Ted Genoways
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, the giant mea...
DATE: Oct 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Robinson, Chast among book award finalists
NEW YORK – Novelist Marilynne Robinson, cartoonist Roz Chast and former U.S. poet laureate Louise Gluck are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards.
Robinson was ...
DATE: Oct 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Leonard Cohen at 80: Still on top of his game
Leonard Cohen, “Popular Problems” (Columbia Records)
There’s no reason, of course, why an artist should slow down at 80. If the mind is still sharp – and, as in Leonard Cohen’s ca...
DATE: Oct 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Panel zeroes in on restorative justice
This year’s Common Reading Experience, which is focused on Sister Helen Prejean’s book Dead Man Walking, will examine the issue of the death penalty through the lens of photography, theater,...
DATE: Oct 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Common reading and community dialogue
Annual program puts ‘Dead Man Walking’ in the spotlight
DATE: Oct 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Book Review: Couple finds a lost spark in Brightwell
Murder at the Brightwell (Minotaur), by Ashley Weaver
At the heart of this light, energetic tale of a group of wealthy eccentrics on holiday at a seaside resort in England emerges...
DATE: Oct 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Isaacson’s new book tells of digital revolution
NEW YORK – Walter Isaacson has a different way of looking at history.
Mention the second half of 1969 and he won’t talk about Woodstock or the moon landing but the development of ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
His namesake had a terrible, horrible day, but Alexander Viorst is doing just fine
WASHINGTON — Of all the great characters in children’s literature, only a select few achieve such fame that, like Madonna, they need only a first name: Eloise, Madeline, Ramona — and of cour...
DATE: Oct 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Modiano wins Nobel for works about Nazi occupation
STOCKHOLM – Patrick Modiano of France, who has made a lifelong study of the Nazi occupation and its effects on his country, won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what one acade...
DATE: Oct 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
Bets are on for literature Nobel winner
STOCKHOLM – Betting on French novelist Patrick Modiano to win the Nobel Prize in literature has surged before the award’s announcement on Thursday.
Modiano, author of Missing Per...
DATE: Oct 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Books
