What to Read? Recommendations from Carrie Brown

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Book Reviews

Carrie Brown — author of among other titles, the 1998 Discover Award winner Rose’s Garden, paperback favorite The Rope Walk, and now The Last First Day, an indelible portrait of a woman’s life and the happiness she ultimately, and perhaps...

The Facades

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Book Reviews

A popular opera singer vanishes in a depressed Midwest city, where her timid husband must descend into an underworld of defiant librarians, crazed architects, and apocalypse fanatics to find her.  A Discover Great New Writers selection.

Hothouse

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Book Reviews

Boris Kachka’s thoughtful insider look at the publishing giant Farrar, Straus & Giroux is replete with toe-curling tales of the eponymous owners’ office antics, as well as their pugnacious battles for their authors and books.

A Newspaper’s Credo

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Book Reviews

September 18: “We shall be Conservative, in all cases where we think Conservatism essential to the public good; — and we shall be Radical in everything which may seem to us to require radical treatment and radical reform.”