Mark A. Johnson chronicles America’s love-hate relationship with bacon
In American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon, Mark A. Johnson examines the complicated 400-year history of what some argue is America’s favorite food — and all the cultural baggage it carries. Johnson will discuss American Bacon at Union Ave. Books on April 16.
Book Excerpt: Cartoons for the Chaos
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on music, animals, and the chaotic joy of spring
A teenager’s death leads to an investigation of London’s dirty money in Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling
Book Excerpt: Forest Time
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