Books: American Lives
For the first time since 1977, the Pulitzer Prize committee today awarded no prize for fiction. I love reading fiction but I’m not finding a lot, lately, to cheer about. It feels fitting, then, to post on a memoir and two biographies. Each concerns the life of an American woman. For a work assignment, I
(...)Books: Start and Stop Reading
Wow. How many doorstoppers in a row? First, Peter Orner’s “Love and Shame and Love.†A great title! His story is multigenerational but so choppily told I lost interest in every character. Next, Anna Solomon’s “The Little Bride.†Another great title, well reviewed. I put it down two-thirds of the way through. If you put
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