Anne Rice returns to the religion she knew as a child
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by John Mark Eberhart
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Ultimately, Anne Rice decided that being an atheist was just too damned hard. She had been raised in a devoutly Catholic New Orleans family, and with a child's eyes and accepting heart had experienced "the beauty of God."
But years later, as a young woman, she'd found ...
Historian: Today's politicians could learn a lot from Lincoln
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Bill Wilson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - As America prepares to elect a president, historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin said what the country needs is another Abraham Lincoln to lead it out of today's economic crisis. A reflective Lincoln, who loved to surround himself with dissenting opinions to mold ...
'Talent Is Overrated' is food for thought
McClatchy Newspapers
10/9/2008, by Cecil Johnson
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - "Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else" by Geoff Colvin; Portfolio, 228 pages ($29.95) If you, like most people, believe that Mozart and Tiger Woods entered this mortal realm in possession of some kind of special ...
A welcome return to Charlie Resnik in ‘Cold in Hand'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Oline H. Cogdill
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - "Cold in Hand" by John Harvey; Harcourt ($26) A decade ago, British author John Harvey ended his popular and critically acclaimed series about police detective Charlie Resnik with the evocative "Last Rites" (1998). Except for a couple of supporting appearances ...
‘Badlands': Cleveland novelist again sets a crime thriller in Philadelphia
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by David Hiltbrand
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "Badlands" by Richard Montanari; Ballantine ($26) Someone should warn the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Bureau about Richard Montanari. This suspense novelist from Cleveland likes to set his serial-killer thrillers in the City of Brotherly Love.
He's at it again _ ...
‘Home': Can a parent's love provide redemption?
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Geeta Sharma Jensen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - "Home: A Novel" by Marilynne Robinson; Farrar, Straus and Giroux ($25) Her canvas remains the same as her last novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Gilead." It is still 1956 in the town of Gilead in Iowa, still the same events, the same two pastors and their ...
‘The Lizard King': A snake story with bite
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by David Fleshler
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT) - "The Lizard King" by Bryan Christy; Twelve ($25.95) Florida's rich literature of true crime just grew richer with the publication of Bryan Christy's "The Lizard King," a tale of snakes in suitcases, shadowy Malaysian smugglers and driven law enforcement ...
‘Autism's False Prophets': Defending vaccines in the debate
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Huntly Collins
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a Cure" by Paul A. Offit; Columbia University Press ($24.95) Next to clean drinking water, vaccines are arguably the most important advance in public health in the last 300 years. Thanks to ...
‘Nothing to Be Frightened Of': Diverting thoughts on Grim Reaper
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Frank Wilson
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "Nothing to Be Frightened Of" by Julian Barnes; Knopf ($24.95) Julian Barnes' "Nothing to Be Frightened Of" is about something Barnes himself happens to be very frightened of, namely, death. Or, more particularly, the prospect of his own inevitable demise.
Its ...
‘The Forever War': A ride into the heart-thumping world of utter destruction and combat
McClatchy Newspapers
10/1/2008, by Chris Hedges
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins; Knopf ($23.95) Dexter Filkins' book "The Forever War," his account of the conflicts he covered as a reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan, is a kaleidoscope of images and intensity, bizarre encounters, electrifying vignettes, graphic ...
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