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Thrity Umrigar visits ‘The Museum of Failures’ | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA “weird combination of pity and guilt” is the essence of “The Museum of Failures,” a powerful...
The Power of Percival Everett: America’s Incendiary Man of Letters
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Power of Percival EverettOprah Daily With a lifetime achievement award from the National Book...
Paranormal romance seals ‘Healing Kiss’ | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 months ago“Healing Kiss,” a paranormal romance-thriller by Cleveland resident Amanda Uhl, stars a young woman who’s on the run as she tries to help her family and...
Non-stop action, realistic details make 'What Harms You' a compelling read | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 10 months ago“What Harms You” is second in an excellent series about the fictional Locard Institute for forensic...
Geraldine Brooks, Saeed Jones win Anisfield-Wolf prize
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNovels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year's winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented for literature “that confronts racism and ...
Marion Motley biography breaks through lines | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe “lines” in the title of “Breaking Through the Lines: The Marion Motley Story” by former Beacon...
Book Talk: Family secrets bared in ‘Where Wild Peaches Grow’
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA family broken by betrayal and reunited by the death of a patriarch is the stuff of many a Southern novel, and so it is with “Where Wild Peaches Grow,” a generational story by South Euclid ...
Murdered doctor turns into a tree in inventive, lyrical detective novel | Book Talk
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDetective novel “Fractured Oak” is written by local author Dr. Carrie Rubin. “Tizzy the Dizzy...
A peek at lit fest lineup
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 30—Call it a prologue. The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will release its full roster of authors in January, when tickets will go on sale, but it offered a December preview to ...
20 Black poets to know this National Black Poetry Day
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEvery year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider to allow for more...
