Review of 'The Terri Schiavo Story'
Catholic Media Review
4/1/2009, by Leticia Velasquez
Let's remember Terri's Day and say "never again" in America will a healthy young woman who happens to be silent, suffer the agony of dehydration. WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - Four years ago, a young disabled woman was dehydrated by court order, at the command of her estranged husband, while ...
Author Janet Nichols Lynch steers her rich life into passion for stories
McClatchy Newspapers
3/25/2009, by Felicia Cousart Matlosz
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - If you described Janet Nichols Lynch's latest novel as solely a story about a man's mid-life crisis, that would shortchange the journey of its protagonist, Gordon Clay. Clay is a community college music instructor who couldn't make it as a professional musician. Lynch ...
Voices of the past, in shimmering new translations
McClatchy Newspapers
3/25/2009, by John Timpane
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Ours is a great era of translation. It has been going for at least two decades now, bringing fiction, drama, and especially poetry into English for our times. Paula Dietz edits the much-respected Hudson Review; its most recent issue is devoted to translation, with ...
A reporter's vivid novel makes war in Kosovo real
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Rhonda Dickey
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad" by Jeffrey Fleishman; Arcade Publishing ($24.95) "Promised Virgins" takes place in Kosovo on the eve of NATO bombings, "a few years before those planes sliced into the silver towers" in New York, as war was playing out, ...
Well-researched book targets Bonnie and Clyde myth
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Jackie Loohauis-Bennett
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - "Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde" by Jeff Guinn; Simon & Schuster ($27) The most famous outlaw couple in American history could have been "Eleanor and Clyde."
That's not the way Hollywood tells it. But in reality, long before Clyde ...
Massachusetts senator's life is chronicled by reporters from the Boston Globe
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Tim O'Brien
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy" by The Boston Globe staff, edited by Peter S. Canellos; Simon and Schuster ($28) Has there ever been a more easily caricatured politician than Ted Kennedy? He's a dream come true for editorial cartoonists. Big red ...
Clinton spreading word on the need for books
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Diane Evans
DelMio.com (MCT) - When former president Bill Clinton spoke recently before the Association of American Publishers in New York City, he focused on the economy and the new stimulus plan approved by Congress. For publishers, nothing is more important _ especially given industry consolidation as a ...
Talking with ‘Blueberry Girl' author Neil Gaiman
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Tom Beer
Newsday (MCT) - So far, 2009 has been kind to Neil Gaiman. The English-born author, who lives outside Minneapolis, already had a cult following for his comic series, "The Sandman," and fantasy novels such as "American Gods." Earlier this year, the animated film adaptation of Gaiman's YA novel ...
Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates struggles to write through a year of loss
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Chauncey Mabe
Sun Sentinel (MCT) - Since Joyce Carol Oates' first novel, "With Shuddering Fall," came out in 1964, she has averaged two books a year. Many of them are novels, though she's also written plays, poetry, children's books, literary criticism, and a highly regarded sports book, "On Boxing" ...
Mr. Jefferson, meet Sally Hemings: The rest is history
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Connie Ogle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - What reader wouldn't marvel at the clever way in which Annette Gordon-Reed timed her latest book? Imagine having the foresight to get a history on the enslaved Hemings family and its ties to Thomas Jefferson published the same year that the United States elected its ...
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