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Nov. 17 2023

BookNotes Review November 2023

By Judith Krummeck | Posted in Booknotes, Host Blogs | Comments Off on BookNotes Review November 2023

My Name is Barbra Barbra Streisand To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul Tracy K. Smith The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 Robert Darnton Day: A Novel Michael Cunningham  

Nov. 03 2023

Glazed With War: honoring Veterans Day on BookNotes

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      On Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11 at 7 p.m., the Iranian-American poet, writer, and graphic designer, Pantea Amin Tofangchi, will launch her poetry collection, Glazed With War, published by Mason Jar Press. It will be my pleasure and privilege to be in conversation with Pantea at her launch and, by way of a sneak preview, […]

Oct. 20 2023

BookNotes Review October 2023

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Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein Anne Eekhout Translated by Laura Watkinson The Exchange John Grisham Worthy Jada Pinkett Smith Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon Michael Lewis  

Oct. 06 2023

Artwork as a trigger for public awareness on BookNotes

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    Phase Two In this garden, the snow will melt, evaporate, and begin its cycle all over again. — Lee Heineman Jann Rosen-Queralt is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent project is Heart Beating Beneath the Earth, a book of photographs and the writings they inspired.  

Sep. 15 2023

BookNotes Review September 2023

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The Fraud Zadie Smith The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang Elon Musk Walter Isaacson  

Sep. 01 2023

BookNotes explores a clever satire of an all-too-plausible scenario

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      The year is 2023, and the United States has collapsed into a second civil war. In her debut novel, writer and editor Christine Grillo asks how we can make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us.        

Aug. 18 2023

BookNotes Review August 2023

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  Tom Lake Ann Patchett August Wilson: A Life Patti Hartigan Homicide Philippe Squarzoni Based on the book by David Simon Booker Longlist 2023 Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Nigerian) A Spell of Good Things (Canongate)  Sebastian Barry (Irish) Old God’s Time (Faber & Faber)  Sarah Bernstein (Canadian) Study for Obedience (Granta Books)  Jonathan Escoffery (American) If I […]

Aug. 04 2023

The 17th annual Marfield Prize-winner on BookNotes

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      Jennifer Homans is a prize-winning author, historian, and dance critic for The New Yorker who has brought her personal and professional experience to the biography, Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century. It was a pleasure to speak with Jennifer via Zoom.            

Jul. 21 2023

BookNotes Review July 2023

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    Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead Prom Mom Laura Lippman Thunderclap A memoir of art and life & sudden death Laura Cumming  

Jul. 07 2023

On BookNotes, garden restoration as a metaphor for restoring familial bonds

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        Following on from her prize-winning novel in short stories, The Balcony, Jane Delury has just released her second book, Hedge, about a strong and creative woman at an emotional cross-roads in her life.              

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