by bertbaby | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 14: On this day in 1834 Richard Dana boarded the merchant brig Pilgrim for the Boston–California return voyage that would become Two Years Before the Mast. Dana had just turned nineteen when he decided to escape Harvard and his comfortable, upper-class...
by bertbaby | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews
The Ask Bob author on literature’s best animal companions.
by bertbaby | Aug 13, 2013 | Book Reviews
Sometimes the mystery is not what leads up to a murder, but what happens after.
by bertbaby | Aug 13, 2013 | Book Reviews
We see a lot of memoirs in the Discover reading room, but it’s only the truly great ones, like Wave and This Boy’s Life, The Liar’s Club, The Tender Bar, and Wild, with their electric prose, keen-eyed observations, and undercurrents of grief –...
by bertbaby | Aug 13, 2013 | Book Reviews
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy. The formula has worked for Mike...
by bertbaby | Aug 13, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 13: On this day in 1923 Ernest Hemingway published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. Hemingway had arrived in Paris two years earlier, an unpublished twenty-two-year-old journalist with a recent bride, a handful of letters of introduction provided by...
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