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David Sedaris Talks About Smoking, Blogging and His Personal Encounter with a Decapitated Headnew

One might expect the in-demand Sedaris to be a bit bored by the interview process, but instead he's just like his writing: affable, chatty, relaxed. He makes the not-unreasonable assumption that you know him already, weaving casual references to his life and family into the conversation.

New Haven Advocate | Brianna Snyder | 06-24-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Richard Price is One of Our Best Chroniclers of Street Lifenew

Price's recently released and bestselling eighth novel is Lush Life, another sprawling work. A restaurant worker is gunned down in a gentrifying neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York, and two streetwise cops hit the pavement to find out what happened. The answer isn't simple, as it never is in Price's stories.

New Haven Advocate | Jim Motavalli | 06-10-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Wire, Lush Life, Richard Price

Two New Affecting Books About Loving, and Being, Childrennew

Frances Richey's book of poems The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War and A.M. Holmes' memoir The Mistress's Daughter are "children's literature" in the most literal way.

New Haven Advocate | Jolisa Gracewood | 05-13-2008 | Books

'The Ten Year Nap': You Snooze, You Losenew

Meg Wolitzer explores the "Opt-Out Revolution" in novel form.

New Haven Advocate | Jolisa Gracewood | 04-01-2008 | Fiction

Tags: Meg Wolitzer, The Ten Year Nap, Fiction Reviews

War Between the Coversnew

A battle-weary reading list.

New Haven Advocate | Jolisa Gracewood | 03-11-2008 | Books

Superheroes Without A Causenew

Incredible powers? Today's comic book crusaders have a problem with that.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 01-15-2008 | Books

Go Without Godnew

A French philosopher finds you don't have to believe to be virtuous.

New Haven Advocate | Evan Brown | 12-26-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Andre Comte-Sponville, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, Nonfiction Reviews

'Beyond the White House': Get Carter!new

The ex-president pumps his ego, deservedly.

New Haven Advocate | Evan Brown | 12-18-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Jimmy Carter, Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope, Nonfiction Reviews

'Military Misdemeanors' Hits its Targetnew

A basic compendium of interesting anecdotes from warfare's brutal past, and enough modern tales of bungling and clandestine savagery to make you want to find a bunker and hide.

New Haven Advocate | Evan Brown | 11-13-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Military Misdemeanors, Terry Crowdy, Nonfiction Reviews