Father Gunn knew that their housekeeper Mrs. Kennedy could have done it all much better than he would do it. Mrs. Kennedy would have done...

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Last week I read a Walt Whitman poem on Twitter. This week, I found a charming Portable Walt Whitman paperback edition in a Little Free...

Ellen Notbohm  is an award-winning author best known for her books on autism. Her new historical novel, The River by Starlight , tells th...

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I am in northern Iceland, 913 miles and a softly arcing mapline away from my own Norwegian beginning stories, and I have a lot of questi...

What books came into your house last week? The Little Free Libraries in my neighborhood have been overflowing and I found three books that l...

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Dionisia Morales grew up in New York City and now lives and writes in Oregon. Her new collection of essays, Homing Instincts , just came ...

When she arrived, Chimsky was already waiting at their usual spot in the back, a small booth for two underneath a mounted moose head, a d...

; Bette Lynch Husted is a poet and essayist who just wrote her first novel, All Coyote's Children , a compelling story set in nort...

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The door opened, a whip of wind rustled in. Traber stood in the door in all his startling height. The Seasons of Doubt by Jeannie Burt...

Two interesting and completely different nonfiction books came my way last week. What books came into your house? Beginner's Luck: D...

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Ben was her youngest, her last. When the others went, she had felt a pang, but there had always been Ben, there had always been the unti...

Inspired by reading the memorials to Philip Roth, I got a Library of America edition of his collected nonfiction. Why Write? by Philip ...

I just realized I forgot to announce the winner of last year's European Reading Challenge! What a dolt! THIS IS THE WINNER ANNOU...

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Philip Roth passed away this week at 85, having written over 30 books of fiction, autobiography, criticism, and essays over a 55-year span b...

Philip Roth was born in 1933 in New Jersey, the setting of many of his books. His personal life was often fodder for his fiction, part...

When my niece, Maya, called for the third time in three weeks, she wanted to know what the hell was going on over there, and by over ther...