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14 Books for Winter Readingnew
Fall into winter with some reading. Fourteen books to consider.
The Memphis Flyer |
Memphis Flyer Staff |
12-05-2012 |
Books
Tags: Winter Books
Endpapers: Winter Readingnew
Some cool books for the coming season.
The Memphis Flyer |
The Flyer Staff |
12-01-2011 |
Books
Endpapers: Summer Readingnew
What’s new? Supergods, a Swedish whodunit, and a shocking good time.
The Memphis Flyer |
Flyer Staff |
07-07-2011 |
Books
'The Double Life of a Rebel' Looks at Poet Arthur Rimbaudnew
This handy, brief biography is published by Atlas & Co. in its continuing series of "Eminent Lives."
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
11-21-2008 |
Nonfiction
Dog Days Reading Listnew
Niagara Falls this summer? Rome, Paris, Florence? Don't get stranded at O'Hare with the proper reading material. Includes review of Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth, Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies, Dear American Airlines, and more.
The Memphis Flyer |
Staff |
08-01-2008 |
Books
In New Orleans, Nothing's Easy. Ask Julia Reed.new
Reed and her husband John searched the Garden District for a house, which they finally found: a Greek Revival at the corner of First and Chestnut -- another New Orleans classic but one in need of mega repairs. And time, according to Reed's The House on First Street, for the real troubles to begin.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
07-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Jack Pendarvis Debuts with 'Awesome' Absurditynew
Besides a smattering of high-end literary references, prepare in Awesome to be treated to life's lower end: multiple examples of buggery and flatulence.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
06-27-2008 |
Fiction
Finding Herself in Cajun Countrynew
Journalist Rheta Grimsley Johnson writes a long love letter to her adoptive home in Louisiana's Cajun Country.
The Memphis Flyer |
John Branston |
06-06-2008 |
Nonfiction
Richard Bausch Looks at Life in Wartimenew
Peace is a short novel, and Bausch writes with the immediacy required -- whether he's describing the raw weather and difficult terrain of Italy or the harsh terms and ugly realities of life in wartime.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
05-16-2008 |
Fiction
History Lessons, Courtesy of Nicholson Baker and Howard Zinnnew
Human Smoke is itself a kind of reference work: a series of short reports -- some only a paragraph long and most of them drawn from newspaper accounts, diaries, documents, letters, memoirs, memos, and public speeches, with Baker doing the assembling and providing the timeline and context.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
04-25-2008 |
Nonfiction
Crunch Timenew
Name your syndrome in the stories of Neil Smith.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
Author Daniel Mendelsohn: On a Rescue Missionnew
The Lost is more than a testament to the detective work that sent Mendelsohn from Ukraine, to Australia, to Scandinavia, to Israel, and to the Upper East Side in search of clues to his relatives lost during the Holocaust.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gil |
02-08-2008 |
Nonfiction
Mother Indianew
Grand-scale storytelling from second-time novelist Manil Suri.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gil |
02-01-2008 |
Fiction
Grievous Angelnew
In his meticulously researched biography, David Meyer condemns the romanticized version of Gram Parsons and calls the man himself, by turns, "a pathological liar, an unreliable friend, a narcissistic husband and careless father."
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
12-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
Endpapersnew
What's new in books? Coward in letters and Borat in the U.S. and A.; plus a latke on the run, Cleopatra's nose, and the conscience of a liberal.
The Memphis Flyer |
Staff |
11-30-2007 |
Books
