Longstanding disagreements about content in school libraries often focus this year on books with LGBTQ themes.
Led by MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner Michelle Dorrance, the company's performances demonstrate the incredibly dynamic range that tap dance has to offer.
"I never got the sense that he was trying to 'create material' for me," Barry Friedman said of his father. "This was just the way he was." His new book is titled "Jack Sh*t: Voluptuous Bagels and Other Concerns of Jack Friedman."
An icon of Americana music, one of the leading voices of National Public Radio and an award-winning documentary filmmaker are among the guests for the 89th season of Tulsa Town Hall.
Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 11, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2023 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 20…
William Shatner will be among guests at Planet Comicon Kansas City, scheduled March 17-19 at Bartle Hall in downtown Kansas City.
Jennifer Egan always knew she’d return to the characters in her acclaimed 2011 novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” “I never stopped thinking about them,” she says. Just a year after that book was published, a short story about one of its characters was published in tweet form over 10 nights…
William Shatner will be among guests at Planet Comicon Kansas City, scheduled March 17-19 at Bartle Hall in downtown Kansas City.
Jennifer Egan always knew she’d return to the characters in her acclaimed 2011 novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” “I never stopped thinking about them,” she says. Just a year after that book was published, a short story about one of its characters was published in tweet form over 10 nights by the New Yorker. That story became a chapter in Egan’s “The Candy House,” published last year and ...
FICTION: A group of eco-guerrillas encounter a mysterious billionaire in this pre-pandemic literary thriller. "Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (432 pages, $28) ——— I'll start my review with the headline: Eleanor Catton's "Birnam Wood" is one of 2023's most sophisticated, stylish and searching literary works, a full-on triumph from a generational talent. Catton is best ...
"Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story" by Lynette Reini-Grandell; Minnesota Historical Society Press (319 pages, $29.95) ——— Author's Note: "Wild Things" tells the story of my marriage to Venus de Mars, artist and front person for the band All the Pretty Horses. Most of the book's events happen during the years when the kind of knowledge and terminology we now have about being trans ...
DALLAS — It’s an auction of just about 400 of legendary Texas author Larry McMurtry’s personal belongings from Archer City and it promises to be no ordinary estate sale. Fans can bid on one or more of McMurtry’s 14 typewriters, a large collection of animal skulls, a Steinway grand piano, a four-poster bed, his writing desk and chair, a 1901 Colt .45 pistol, Hollywood memorabilia and two pairs ...
FICTION: Tom Comitta weaves canonical descriptions of the natural world into a rich, sweeping fictional narrative — lyrically vast and uniquely thrilling. "The Nature Book" by Tom Comitta; Coffee House Press (272 pages, $17.95) ——— During an epic snowstorm in Tom Comitta's "The Nature Book" comes this sentence: "All nature seemed to tremble, everything in panicky motion." The statement serves ...
Books in brief "Dinner Party" by Sarah Gilmartin; Pushkin Press (272 pages, $16.95) ——— Sarah Gilmartin's debut novel is bookended by dinner parties — the first, on Halloween night 2018, is formal, with elaborate food (beef Wellington, baked Alaska), and the second, on Halloween night one year later, is simpler, with chili and takeaway pizza. Both parties are family affairs, and about as ...
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