The opening of Nell Freudenberger’s new novel, ‘Lost and Wanted,” echoes a classic”Twilight Zone” episode. In ‘Night Call,” a phone …
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The opening of Nell Freudenberger’s new novel, ‘Lost and Wanted,” echoes a classic”Twilight Zone” episode. In ‘Night Call,” a phone …
My one and only meeting with first lady Barbara Bush came just six months before she died. The occasion was …
In December 1940, the operations chief of France’s largest spy network walked into a bar in the port city of …
Maisie Dobbs’ devoted readers have been through a lot with her. In ‘The American Agent,” the 14th novel about Dobbs …
Laila Lalami sets her fourth novel, ‘The Other Americans,” in a contemporary United States, a big departure for an artist …
Everyone’s got a book in them, and Frank Widdicombe, a Bainbridge Island paterfamilias, has determined that he will write one …
This Tuesday, April 9, won’t be the first time New Yorker magazine cartoonist Roz Chast has been to Iowa, actually. …
Josh Malerman is best known for his disturbing, deeply original novel ‘Bird Box,” about a mother determined to save her …
Comedy, it’s been said, is tragedy plus time. Is there any better evidence of this proposition than ‘The Producers?” Written …
Tawanda ‘Tee” Marie Hanible proudly lists the things that she is: a woman, a mother, a daughter, a philanthropist, a …
Music came so easily to Prince, one of the most difficult things in his purple life was convincing others that …
Author Terry Maggert is reaching his stride in the self-publishing world. By early 2020 Maggert, who will be doing a …
Merritt Tierce, a Texas native who earned an MFA the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2011, is one of 10 recipients …
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