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The colorful life of author Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block has followed many paths during his long career. “With not a few dead end roads among them,” notes the mystery novelist. Best known for his Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series, ...

June 6, 2021, Sunday

A boon for US minority novelists as TV finally embraces diversity

GROWING up an avid reader, Kwana Jackson knew where to look for romance novels with black characters: Segregated in the “African American interest” section where only determined shoppers would find them. When ...

May 16, 2021, Sunday

Farming is sexy, just ask Farmer Lee Jones

Despite thousands of years of humans working the soil, there are still things to learn. Just ask Farmer Lee Jones about the beet leaves. The Ohio-based farmer had planted too many beets and the surplus ...

May 9, 2021, Sunday

Ironically, pandemic revives love for nature

The new season of spring shows has begun, and viewership is way up by all accounts. We’re not talking about screens, which we’ve all been glued to during the pandemic. Less noticed is another trend: ...

May 9, 2021, Sunday

Birds as revelations: Atwood writes foreword for Gibson book

WHEN Margaret Atwood would receive invitations over the years to literary events around the world, literature wasn’t the only factor shaping her response. She also kept in mind the interests of her longtime ...

April 11, 2021, Sunday

Original ‘SNL’ player’s memoir looks back in fondness, humor

IF Laraine Newman recounted only her experiences as an original “Saturday Night Live” player — a storied ensemble that included Gilda Radner and John Belushi — she’d have plenty of memoir material. But ...

March 21, 2021, Sunday

Finding a recipe for ‘Food Between Friends’

A chance meeting at a dinner party by two people reluctant to be at that dinner party has resulted in a cookbook perfect for your next dinner party. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, star of “Modern Family,” and ...

March 14, 2021, Sunday

Poison a lady’s recipe for murder

AGATHA Christie’s first novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” (1920), introduces her iconic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and features her famous quip: “Poison is a woman’s weapon.” Of course, ...

February 28, 2021, Sunday

An insider’s look behind ‘60 minutes’

LONG-TIME multi-award-winning producer Ira Rosen has written a sometimes sad, often funny, always revealing portrait of American television’s most famous and successful news show “60 Minutes.” Rosen ...

February 28, 2021, Sunday

Foreign authors top sellers with literature-loving Tehran women

French authors Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir rub shoulders with the likes of Jewish diarist Anne Frank and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam in Tehran bookstores where the largely female readership lap ...

December 27, 2020, Sunday



 

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