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‘See You in Paradise’ plays with genre

See You in Paradise By J. Robert Lennon (Graywolf Press) “Most contemporary literary fiction is terrible: mannered, conservative and obvious,” J. Robert Lennon stated on Salon, responding to anoth...

Nov 27, 2014
Book Review
‘Revival’ asks if there is life after death

Revival By Stephen King (Scribner) A page-turning tug-of-war between reformed rocker Jamie Morton and man of faith Charles Jacobs, “Revival” (King’s second novel this year after spring’s “Mr. Merc...

Nov 27, 2014
Book Review
Rare first Shakespeare edition found in French library

LILLE, France (AFP) ― A copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the first-ever compilation of the Bard’s plays published in 1623, has been discovered in the library of an ancient port town in nort...

Nov 26, 2014
Book Review
Author recounts friendship with late President Roh

Not many people can say that they were close with the late former President Roh Moo-hyun, even though he was known for his folksy disposition and down-to-earth upbringing. Kim Soo-kyung, a 65-year-o...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
Phil Klay wins U.S. book award for fiction

NEW YORK (AP) ― Phil Klay’s “Redeployment,” a debut collection of satiric and often agonized stories by an Iraq war veteran, has won the National Book Award for fiction. Klay was chosen Wednesday ni...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
Shields writes of life with mother

There was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me By Brooke Shields (Dutton) Brooke Shields, the iconic model-actress-Princeton grad, entered the literary scene in 2005 with her memoir a...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
‘Woman with a Gun’ feels like movie

Woman with a Gun By Phillip Margolin (Harper) Phillip Margolin takes a lighter approach with “Woman with a Gun,” an entertaining novel that, however, lacks the tight plotting and insight into the ...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
‘Rain Reign’ shows love for ‘special’ kids

Rain Reign By Ann M. Martin (Feiwel & Friends) If Rose Howard’s family was well off, she’d be a “special” girl who was considered smart and quirky by the teachers at her private school for childre...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
Baldacci’s novel tugs at heart strings

The Escape By David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) One of the most compelling characters in David Baldacci’s thrillers is John Puller, a crackerjack investigator of military crimes. In “The F...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
‘Gutenberg’s Apprentice’ tells story of how printed Bible came to be

The world is about to change. Europe in 1450 is a godly place, and books are sacred and scarce. Each is hand-lettered by a scribe, directed by the hand of the Almighty. In Alix Christie’s telling o...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
Herbie Hancock’s memoir recalls a creative life and all that jazz

Herbie Hancock has had the kind of career that’s unlikely to ever be duplicated. Appearing on landmark recordings with Miles Davis as well as his own band in the 1960s, Hancock memorably scaled to ev...

Nov 20, 2014
Book Review
Yi Yook-sa’s poems published in English

During his short life, Yi Yook-sa (1904-44), a Korean poet and independence activist, composed only about 40 poems. Yet his compelling poems, written during the darkest period of modern Korean histor...

Nov 19, 2014
Book Review
Translation award honors Suh Ji-moon

Scholar given Korean Literature Translation Award for ‘House with a Sunken Courtyard’

Nov 18, 2014
Book Review
Final volume of Hockney biography

David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012 By Christopher Simon Sykes (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) More than halfway through the second volume of his vivid, intimate biography of British artist David Ho...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
New thriller from Preston & Child

Blue Labyrinth By Douglas Preston and/Lincoln Child (Grand Central Pulishing) A family secret over 100 years old comes back to haunt FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast in Douglas Preston and Li...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review

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