Andrew Maraniss on his new series of biographies for young readers
…Moore and LeBron James were doing real, substantial work to help other people. That’s what the series is all about. This is not to say that athletes are role models…
Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree teems with heartbreak, humor, and stunning prose
…to sink into its underworld, a place of “wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with a vigor unknown to the sane” and “flower ladies in their bonnets like cowled…
Characters can’t escape the past in Jill McCorkle’s Old Crimes
…moments of humor. “Confessional” is about an actual confessional, sold by an eccentric antique dealer to a couple who can’t resist the idea of installing it in their home. The…
David Dark on resisting “deferential fear”
The intersection of our spiritual, commun*]}*al, and political lives has always been David Dark’s intellectual territory. In books like The Possibility of America and the recently revised Life’s Too Short…
Poet Anders Carlson-Wee on his new collection, Disease of Kings
…stinginess allowed me to work minimally (as a personal trainer at the YMCA) and devote the majority of my time to reading and writing. So my pathological frugality is at…
Prine on Prine shines with the beloved songwriter’s heart, humor, and humanity
…world” — it’s practically all that matters. In this wonderful book, he shows us all that — and also how to make his favorite cocktail, the Handsome Johnny. So I…
