by bertbaby | Jun 4, 2014 | Book Reviews
A year in the life of a rookie reporter earning her stripes inside the frenzy of Watergate.
by bertbaby | Jun 4, 2014 | Book Reviews
Call it Girls for grown women. Joanna Rakoff’s memoir of ’90s Brooklyn – and her surprising friendship with the hermetic J.D. Salinger – is a nimble, strong-willed look at her choice to “come of age” and write with an open heart.
by bertbaby | Jun 4, 2014 | Book Reviews
Why do nice folks keep turning up dead in the same Milanese canal? Detective Lamberti suspects the corrupt lawyer with whom he once shared a prison cell. Giorgio Scerbanenco’s reissued 1966 crime noir is a perfect beach read, and cooler than a chilled...
by bertbaby | Jun 4, 2014 | Book Reviews
Two of today’s best young writers – and sometime collaborators – on ambition, the separation anxiety of finishing a novel, and American history’s dangerous frontiers.
by bertbaby | Jun 4, 2014 | Book Reviews
June 4: The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on this day in 1917.
by bertbaby | Jun 3, 2014 | Book Reviews
The British essayist on his U.S. Navy immersion.
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