by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Hawaii sometimes seems a tropical maiden affianced to the staid and temperate continental United States. But as surfing journalist Chas Smith makes clear, the beautiful maiden’s moods and whims can also be poisonous and operatic.
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Few Hollywood insiders can boast as rich a career as Robert Evans, and as much willingness to share all the glossy, gory details. His second volume of memoirs concentrates on the series of three strokes that played so great a part in his recent years.
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
Academic and prosaic themes; language and unvoiced feelings—all blend inextricably and beautifully in the poems of Michael Davidson, which, by deconstructing themselves, make the practice of poetry fresh again.
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
In the genre of “books tallying mammoth heroic self-imposed feats” comes William B. Helmreich’s engaging account of how he logged 6,000 miles on foot through all the boroughs of NYC, accumulating many insights into the eternal, multi-ethnic...
by bertbaby | Dec 23, 2013 | Book Reviews
An oral history of the lives of the cloistered sheds light on life behind the walls of an American monastery.
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