This year’s Linn Area Reads selection is ‘The Book Thief,’ the 2005 award-winning novel by Markus Zusak. For 13 years …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Living Jan. 31, 2016 8:00 am3605d ago
This year’s Linn Area Reads selection is ‘The Book Thief,’ the 2005 award-winning novel by Markus Zusak. For 13 years …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Living Jan. 30, 2016 10:52 am3606d ago
Susan McCarty’s short story collection ‘Anatomies’ is filled with striking stories told in a variety of forms. Each investigates the …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent Living Jan. 24, 2016 8:00 am3612d ago
Sometimes it’s the simplest stories that pack the biggest punch. ‘The Heart,” the latest novel from French author Maylis de …
By Rob Cline, correspondent Living Jan. 24, 2016 8:00 am3612d ago
John Irving considers the numinous in ‘Avenue of Mysteries,” the author’s 14th novel. The novel is much concerned with the …
By Stacie Gorkow, correspondent Living Jan. 24, 2016 8:00 am3612d ago
Readers may remember I reviewed Angela Correll’s first book, ‘Grounded” in fall of 2013. Correll writes from her Kentucky home …
Living Jan. 24, 2016 8:00 am3612d ago
When Ted Townsend, president and CEO of UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital, first heard Dr. Percy Harris’ story, he knew he …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Jan. 17, 2016 8:00 am3619d ago
Garth Greenwell’s debut novel, ‘What Belongs to You,” is exquisite. Greenwell, who resides in Iowa City and earned his MFA …
Living Jan. 17, 2016 8:00 am3619d ago
The task of completing ‘Autobiography of Mark Twain” takes a powerful heap of commitment. The three-volume total weighs in at …
By Rob Cline, correspondent
Books Jan. 17, 2016 8:00 am3619d ago
Garth Greenwell was deeply engaged with poetry, as a writer and a scholar. But a move overseas provoked a change. …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Living Jan. 17, 2016 8:00 am3619d ago
Author Lenore Myka’s debut collection of short stories, King of the Gypsies, recently won the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Living Jan. 10, 2016 8:00 am3626d ago
While pursuing her master’s in creative writing at Oxford University, Dutch visual artist and author Bette Adriaanse picked up an unusual …
By Laura Farmer, correspondent
Living Jan. 10, 2016 8:00 am3626d ago
If French author Anna Galvada and American director Wes Anderson wrote a book together, the result would likely be something …
By Staci Gorkow, correspondent
Living Jan. 10, 2016 8:00 am3626d ago
Jayne Ann Krentz has written more than 50 New York Times best-selling novels and this is the first one that …
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