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Washington Post· 1 day agoBooksReviewMeet the editor who brought Julia Child to American kitchens Judith Jones, a publishing pioneer who championed Child’s first cookbook and Anne Frank’s diary, is the subject of a new ...
Why Are Debut Novels Failing to Launch?
Esquire· 11 hours agoWhat, exactly, did Sterling Lord do to prime Kerouac’s audience? From 1953 to 1957, he leveraged his own professional connections to place excerpts of On...
Review | A charming look at a reader’s many moods
Washington Post· 7 hours agoThe poet, essayist and New York Times poetry columnist Elisa Gabbert is rare in grasping that reading is, in addition to a mental exercise, a movement...
‘The Demon of Unrest’ Review: The Seeds of Civil War
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoThe scholar Drew Gilpin Faust chronicled his life in a 1982 biography, but the monster has slipped into obscurity and is long overdue for revival as an...
‘The Last of His Kind’ Review: Clayton Kershaw’s Journey
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoSince joining the majors in 2008, the imposing left-hander has won three Cy Young Awards and led the...
The 6 Women Who Shaped America’s Most Macho President
New York Times· 1 day agoIn “The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt,” Edward F. O’Keefe explores the informal kitchen cabinet that...
Review | Meet the editor who brought Julia Child to American kitchens
Washington Post· 1 day agoIn 2007, at the age of 83, the great book editor Judith Jones published a slim, sparkling memoir...
Review: Daisy Ridley makes a splash as legendary swimmer Gertrude Ederle
SFChronicle Datebook· 11 hours agoWith “Young Woman and the Sea,” Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle finally gets the movie she deserves. In...
Elaine May wasn't involved with her biography. That didn't stop this author from telling the comedy...
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoElaine May is one of the key architects of American comedy; an alumna of the influential Kennedy-era...
Book review: A gifted storyteller shares her early Yukon River life
Anchorage Daily News· 5 days ago“Tiny” Devlin, born in 1945 in Nenana, Alaska, was the eighth of 10 children in a family that lived...
