From time to time I’m posting bookstore appreciations from readers. Below writer, NBCC board member and blogger Jane Ciabattari praises Canio’s of Sag Harbor. Canio’s Books, in the former whaling village of Sag Harbor, on the East End of Long Island, is starting to come into its best season, autumn. The busy summer folks have gone, and there is a . . .
In a tribute to the Virago paperback, Jonathan Coe “makes some trenchant observations on the critical dismissal of female authors.”
Philadelphia plots a Poe grave-robbing. Not so fast, says Baltimore crime goddess Laura Lippman. (Via, via.)
My review of Alan Bennett’s delightful novella, The Uncommon Reader, appears in the weekend’s Los Angeles Times Book Review. Here’s an excerpt: In the introduction to his 2004 play, “The History Boys,” Alan Bennett accused Britain’s “so-called Labour Government” of “stamping on the grave of what it was once thought to stand for.” Though he offered this indictment while lamenting . . .
When my dad’s father’s dad — we called him Granddaddy — closed down his cotton business, this article ran in the Drew, Mississippi newspaper. Granddaddy probably really did grow up in a house without a ceiling, a house so cold that “when papa would talk through the hall to the other side of the house his mustache would freeze.” And . . .