Lake Success, Gary Shteyngart
Inspired by his own Greyhound bus trip across the country in 2016, the author tells us a story of a divorcing couple. The hedge-fund...
Dusk Night Dawn, Anne Lamott
Short stories weaved together with topics on your soul; the stories we keep hidden out of fear of rejection; how difficult it is to...
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
An author and professor, a good read for those interested in beginning to write, or do write and want an interesting take and possible...
Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
Enjoyed her first novel so much that I was pleased to see she’d had another. She writes her novels as movies on the written page. Inti...
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino
If you can’t get enough of the film… who can, it's genius, then this book is a nice companion. This is a much deeper dive into the film...
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, VE Schwab
The concept of eternal life. Our main character Addie meets a man and sparks fly.. though there is a problem, she knows that before the...
The Best American Travel Writing 2021
Short stories cover some of the gamuts of traveling in a COVID environment. The theme in travel is connection. Turkish bathhouses that...
Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy
An impressive Australian writer whose American debut. A wonder of a book about the fate of extinction in the not-so-distant future based...
Tinder Box, James A. Miller
.I’ve read a previous book of his on the history of SNL, so I knew he’d be the right man to turn to on the history of HBO from its...
Chasing History, Carl Bernstein
I was fortunate to get this just-released book from the library as its first reader (doesn’t get much better…those who frequent the...