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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Ian Fleming: The Complete Man’
The Washington Times· 15 hours ago“When I was approached to write a new authorized biography of Ian Fleming, the first since 1966, my initial reaction was hesitation,” Mr. Shakespeare replied. Again and again ...
Nonfiction Books - The Washington Post
Washington Post· 2 days 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· 1 day 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: Daisy Ridley makes a splash as legendary swimmer Gertrude Ederle
SFChronicle Datebook· 1 day agoWith “Young Woman and the Sea,” Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle finally gets the movie she deserves. In...
‘The Demon of Unrest’ Review: The Seeds of Civil War
The Wall Street Journal· 7 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...
Review | A charming look at a reader’s many moods
Washington Post· 22 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...
Book review: A gifted storyteller shares her early Yukon River life
Anchorage Daily News· 6 days ago“Tiny” Devlin, born in 1945 in Nenana, Alaska, was the eighth of 10 children in a family that lived...
Review | Meet the editor who brought Julia Child to American kitchens
Washington Post· 2 days agoIn 2007, at the age of 83, the great book editor Judith Jones published a slim, sparkling memoir...
Review: How S.F. soured on sugar baron Claus Spreckels
SFChronicle Datebook· 17 hours agoIn “The Sugar King of California,” historian Sandra E. Bonura traces the life and career of...
The 6 Women Who Shaped America’s Most Macho President
New York Times· 2 days agoIn “The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt,” Edward F. O’Keefe explores the informal kitchen cabinet that...
