Excerpts
June 22, 2010
Excerpt: Lucky Girl
Lucky you, today we have the first chapter of Mei-Ling Hopgood‘s memoir Lucky Girl. Adopted when she was a baby, Mei-Ling Hopgood grew up in the Midwest and was never really curious …
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June 14, 2010
Excerpt from Dream Golf, by Stephen Goodwin
Today we’re launching the revised and expanded edition of Stephen Goodwin’s Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes. What was originally an exploration of the genius behind the British-style links built on …
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June 3, 2010
Short Story Pick-Of-The-Month
Contrary to popular belief, not all writers sit in dark corners scribbling their serious, serious story about how gloomy and awful life is. Most writers use laptops now. Others, like George Singleton, …
May 26, 2010
Excerpt: Far Bright Star
Today we have an excerpt form Robert Olmstead‘s Far Bright Star. This novel, which came out last year and is new in paperback, has gleaned some high praise and won the Western …
May 24, 2010
Peep Show: Sneak Peep
A little about Joshua Braff‘s new book, Peep Show: David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic …
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May 18, 2010
Coffee, Books, Deals, and Chapter 9.
As the title of this post indicates, today is comparable to Christmas, July 4th, and the birth of your first child, all rolled into one. This week we’re launching Heather Lende‘s new …
May 12, 2010
3 Loaves: Levain, at Last!
Inspired by William Alexander‘s new book 52 LOAVES, One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and a Perfect Crust, I am in my third week of learning how to bake bread from …
May 11, 2010
There's a rabbi in the freezer…
In anticipation of today’s excerpt from Steve Stern‘s The Frozen Rabbi, I sat down with a copy of the book last night, intending to maybe read the first chapter, feel out Stern’s …
