Winter Reading – Nonfiction
Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Melville House Publishing, $16.95. I was mad when I picked up the new book Anthony Bourdain: The … Continue reading
Winter Reading Archive
Real Comedy
Local comedian and author talks about her books and making real life humorous
Random Female Syndromes The Syndrome Mag. $12.99. Life is Funny Comedy Workout Publishing. $13.95. It is rare that people can become professional comedians, and yet … Continue reading
Children’s Book Round Up
EW’s mom reviewer and her son weigh in
By Elisha Young and Atlas Our children’s book reviews may have received the most extensive scrutiny of any category. This quartet of books from Quarto Publishing … Continue reading
Eclectic Cookbooks
When it is cold outside, turn up the heat in the kitchen with these cookbooks
In an era when many of us turn to our favorite foodie website or app, it is fair to ask if cookbooks have become obsolete? … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Young Adult
A Girl’s Guide to the Wild by Ruby McConnell. Sasquatch Books, $16.99. A Girls’ Guide to the Wild is a practical, yet whimsical handbook put … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Memoirs
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate. Little Brown and Company, $27. In her first memoir, actress and comedian Jenny Slate fosters a garden of strange and … Continue reading
Larger than Life
A roundup of the year's best photography books
Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town by Matt Eich. Sturm & Drang, $59. Sin & Salvation takes place in Greenwood, Mississippi in a neighborhood called … Continue reading
Winter Reading Top Ten Lists
Black Sun Books Staff Picks 2467 Hilyard Street, 541-484-3777 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, Knopf, $30. The Library Book by Susan Orlean, Simon & Schuster, … Continue reading
Winter Reading – Poetry
Brown: Poems by Kevin Young. Penguin Random House, $27. Brown, a poetry collection by Kevin Young, is about a lot of things. It’s a meditation … Continue reading
Winter Reading
fiction All Coyote’s Children by Bette Lynch Husted. Oregon State University Press, $18.95. (Oregon author) The road less traveled is one of forgiveness and acceptance. … Continue reading