In my mother’s novel, a woman looks out across a northern Utah valley toward the mountains and invents a real estate advertisement for a house overlooking ancient Lake Bonneville. Prospective buyers had better call before the end of the Ice…
How Sinclair Lewis Made Ordinary Middle-Class Life A Subject Of Literary Rebellion The American Dream promised prosperity, freedom and the possibility of becoming someone extraordinary. Sinclair Lewis saw something troubling beneath that promise. Behind the comfortable homes, successful businessmen and…
SCHLICHENMEYER The Bookworm Sez, LLC You always did want a turret. Yeah, a big tower, maybe just off the bedroom. One that allows you to avoid being sacked while you oversee your neighborhood kingdom from on high. You could do…
The Spokesman-Review Northwest Passages: Kenton Bird, author of “Tom Foley, The Man In The Middle” Northwest Passages: Paul Olden, voice of Yankee Stadium Northwest Passages: Steve Gleason and Jeff Duncan, authors of “A Life Impossible” Northwest Passages Book Club: Craig…
I’m interested in the female and male energies in people, and how they reflect on the body itself. How the body manifests our inner worlds. The otherworldliness of She Who Remains isn’t lost on readers. Tell us about working on…
Kushner chatted with the Observer on Monday about her writing career, interest in Carl Jung and her latest book. How did you develop an interest in writing, and when did you get interested in the work of Carl Jung? How…
Students of fraud and fabrication always combat headwinds. In the winter. Uphill both ways. The evidentiary standards for such claims of fabrication grow higher yet given the passage of centuries and an unknown creator of the subject of interest. And…
In his new book, historian and public intellectual Ramachandra Guha opens spaces for reflections by Gandhi as well as his argumentative supporters and critics As Guha emphasises throughout Arguments with Gandhi, this is a follow-up to his two-volume biography, but…
A Duluth family uncovered generations of secrets and new relatives while researching their history for a book. Marie Pank and her mother, Loretta Rounding, recently published “Stories, Secrets and Spirits: One Family in Duluth”. The book explores their family’s past…
He was in the kitchen preparing lentils. The skins of these lentils were a mottled grey with green and brownish flecks. The kitchen after the rain was still and bright. A reddish sun slanted across the rain-soaked garden. Smells of…
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