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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
Denis Johnson explores dark side of Africa

The Laughing Monsters By Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Denis Johnson, winner of the National Book Award for his Vietnam-era opus “Tree of Smoke,” has jumped genres again in “The Laughing...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
‘Some Luck’ takes on an epic scope

Sometimes, the characters in Jane Smiley’s latest novel resemble the Osage-orange hedge that separates the field from the back acreage of Walter Langdon’s Iowa farm: “horse-high, bull-strong, and hog...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
Michael Connelly’s Bosch back with a new partner, old political battles

The Burning Room By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) Politics often seeps into police investigations, especially when a high-profile case has officials from the city to the state level jockeying f...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
Bush wants Jeb to run for president

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) ― Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he believes his brother Jeb Bush should run for president but ultimately the former Florida governor must make a decisi...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review

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