Departments
Advertisement
TALK Books
|
When asked why she wrote about food, the brilliant MFK Fisher said, “It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really... |
|
Much about our life story necessarily depends on who we are telling it to; what we tell our mother is different than what we tell our girlfriends, our lovers, our own children. Thus the act of making a memoir is an interesting endeavor; an author creates a story suitable for any audience,... |
|
Michael Cogdill delivers the news for WYFF. We can find him on our televisions every weeknight at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., reporting the darker mysteries of the day: shootings and robberies, house fires, fugitives, good things gone wrong and bad people getting their due. It is perhaps not surprising... |
|
I keep a stack of books that makes me nervous. |
|
An Unfinished Score |
|
No matter what, we’re always going to read. |
|
In terms of drama, there is really nothing more loaded than a question. Asking a question to get information is one thing; asking a question you already know the answer to is another. Answering a question not asked, or avoiding a question, answering a question with another question, these are all... |
|
We join the story of Amadeo Terra at its end. Confined to a hospital bed or strapped to a chair, he’s lost his body to a stroke. His wife is dead, his lover long ago abandoned him, his two surviving sons are willing to split the bill for his hospital but haven’t visited in years. And there isn’t... |
|
Aretha Franklin sings about it, poets and authors write about it, parents talk about it and many of us forget about it. So, as Aretha sings “R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me,” let’s try to figure out why this does not seem to be of great importance to many people today. |
|
It would be stupid here for me to pretend I understand what he’s talking about. But I like men, in general and in specific the one I live with, and when he came home from the bookstore and consumed this book in a single sitting, laughing, making those pleasurable reading sounds, reading lines... |
|
Every once in a while, I like to blame computers for some things I'm not happy about. I understand the blanket of responsibility is a big one, that people are making decisions about what to read and how, but the general decline of the local newspaper industry and the recent closing of... |
|
I am a pretty conscientious reader, and have been most of my life. My mother likes to tell the story that, when I was a child, I read books so fast I did not even break their spines, and I remember being taken to the library and the bookstore, walking away with my arms full only to return again the... |
|
If a short story by its nature is a sleek thing, pared to the bone, Lauren Groff is writing some kind of long distance swimmer of a story, a body well-made and well-used, fattened up for endurance, its energy perfectly spent at its task. As lush and symphonic as any novel, Delicate Edible Birds... |