The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape
Monday January 29, 2007
With a rich cultural history and Hollywood stars publicly attesting to a wide range of faiths, it's no surprise that California's spiritual landscape is as diverse as its natural surroundings. ... Read More
Oprah Chooses Sidney Poitier Memoir
Saturday January 27, 2007
Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey announced her first book club pick in over a year, Sidney Poitier's 2000 memoir, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography.
Said Winfrey of Poitier and his ... Read More
The Book of Dave by Will Self
Monday January 22, 2007
When cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only child with her, he is thrown into a tailspin of doubt and discontent. Fearing ... Read More
Oprah's Book Club is Back
Sunday January 21, 2007
Oprah is planning to announce her next book club pick this Friday on her television show. Oprah's last book club pick, Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir Night, was chosen in ... Read More
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Wednesday January 17, 2007
Writer, Neil Gaiman, and illustrator, Dave McKean, have collaborated for 20 years. Last week the duo spoke on Minnesota Public Radio about their work together.
Our own Clayton ... Read More
Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich
Monday January 15, 2007
Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby, first introduced in the #1 New York Times bestseller Metro Girl, returns in Motor Mouth, another wild and crazy ride. Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights ... Read More
Steve Martin to Pen Memoir
Saturday January 13, 2007
According to the Associated Press, Steve Martin, iconic comedian of my childhood, is writing a memoir. The comedian, actor, and filmaker has teamed up with publisher Scribner to publish Born ... Read More
New York Times Book Review Podcast - 01.12.07
Friday January 12, 2007
Calvin Trillin, the author of About Alice; Liesl Schillinger on Martin Amis; Neil Genzlinger on Tim Sandlin... More on this week's NYTBR Podcast.
Barbara Ehrenreich on Talk Of The Nation
Wednesday January 10, 2007
Today in the second hour of NPR's Talk of the Nation, Barbara Ehrenreich talks about her new book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.
Collaborative Art for Kids
Sunday January 7, 2007
In Making Art Together, Boston-based artist Mark Cooper, with teacher Lisa Sjostrom, advocates for the power of collaborative art-making among school children. Cooper, an internationally recognized artist and a ... Read More
"How to Speak a Book" by Richard Powers
Saturday January 6, 2007
In this lyrical article, Richard Powers conjures the history of spoken literature while praising the technology that frees him from his own keyboard. My only complaint: he never ... Read More
Once in a Promised Land by Laila Halaby
Monday January 1, 2007
Once in a Promised Land is the story of a couple, Jassim and Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona, each chasing their own ... Read More