TOP 100 BOOK SITES
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| Dream Logic Matthea Harvey’s new collection includes some of the most arresting poems yet written about the current American political atmosphere. nytimes.com |
Former Mob Enforcer Takes on Boston in Novel Author Richard Marinick, a former state Trooper and armed robber, discusses his latest creation. In For a Pound tells the story of a former state Trooper who struggles to get his life back together after prison. npr.org |
Books of The Times: Deadly Players on a Financial Killing Field In “The Finder,” as in earlier thrillers like “Manhattan Nocturne” and “The Havana Room,” Colin Harrison combines a Balzacian eye for social detail and a poet’s sense of mood with a sleazily sensationalistic plot. nytimes.com |
A Prisoner Sentenced to Two Deaths A new book revisits an old case about a Louisiana prisoner who was executed by electrocution twice. In 1946, Louisiana guards attempted to execute 16-year-old Willie Francis but botched it. His legal case ended up before the Supreme Court. npr.org |
Culinary Memoir Shares Spice of Sichuanese Cuisine Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to study cooking at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in the western Chinese city of Chengdu, back in the 1990s. She has written a food memoir of her time in China, Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper. npr.org |