Wallace Public Library aggregator http://wallace.lili.org/aggregator/categories/4 Wallace Public Library - aggregated feeds in category Book Reviews en NPR Books: 'Maud' Doesn't Quite Live Up To Its Heroine's Example http://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/523587046/maud-doesnt-quite-live-up-to-its-heroines-example?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books <img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/04/14/Maud_wide-fb1d55337033e0b29e9eee50fb9aa8a9b911f5dc.jpg?s=600' alt='Maud by Melanie Fishbane'/><p>Lucy Maud Montgomery — creator of Anne of Green Gables — seems like the perfect subject for a work of young adult fiction. But Melanie Fishbane's <em>Maud</em> feels like a draft of a Montgomery story.</p><p>(Image credit: )</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=523587046' /> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:00:01 +0000 NPR Books: Michael Bloomberg And Carl Pope On 'Climate Of Hope' http://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/525675189/michael-bloomberg-and-carl-pope-on-climate-of-hope?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books <p>Rachel Martin speaks with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former chairman of the Sierra Club Carl Pope about how cities should respond to climate change. Their book is <em>Climate of Hope</em>.</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=525675189' /> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:03:00 +0000 New York Times Book Review: The Long View: The Man to Blame for Our Culture of Fame https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/review/the-long-view-culture-of-fame-walter-winchell.html?partner=rss&emc=rss His name was Walter Winchell, and he presided over Table 50 of the Stork Club, temple of a new cult of celebrity, in mid-20th-century Manhattan. Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:00:22 +0000 New York Times Book Review: Critic’s Take: Viet Thanh Nguyen Reveals How Writers’ Workshops Can Be Hostile https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/review/viet-thanh-nguyen-writers-workshops.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sympathizer” explains how creative writing seminars can work against people who don’t come from the mainstream. Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:00:14 +0000 NPR Books: Now You Can Own JFK's Personal Reflections On History, For A Hefty Price http://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/525542898/now-you-can-own-jfks-personal-reflections-on-history-for-a-hefty-price?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books <img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/04/25/img2879-notes-on-france_wide-540145e66f5262ac3ac6b66808bc3d961c447cb5.jpg?s=600' alt='The diary that John F. Kennedy wrote during the summer of 1945, in between his military service and first campaign for Congress, when he worked as a journalist for Hearst Newspapers.'/><p>As a young journalist seven decades ago, John F. Kennedy witnessed a bombed-out Berlin and Adolf Hitler's bunker. Bidding on his diary starts Wednesday and is expected to top $200,000 Wednesday.</p><p>(Image credit: Courtesy of RR Auction)</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/525542898/now-you-can-own-jfks-personal-reflections-on-history-for-a-hefty-price?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=books">read more</a></p> Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:00:01 +0000 New York Times Book Review: Nonfiction: Shakespeare’s Hot Mess: What We Can Learn From Falstaff https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/books/review/falstaff-shakespeare-harold-bloom.html?partner=rss&emc=rss In this love letter to the Bard’s “swag-bellied omnivorous cornucopia of appetites,” Harold Bloom argues for Falstaff as one of literature’s vital forces. Wed, 26 Apr 2017 03:08:56 +0000 NPR Books: 'Just Show Up': Sheryl Sandberg On How To Help Someone Who's Grieving http://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525453115/just-show-up-sheryl-sandberg-on-how-to-help-someone-whos-grieving?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books <img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/04/25/ap_17111714825530_wide-66f3a4f384be225206d1d43b51510c579063e8a9.jpg?s=600' alt='Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in 2016.'/><p>The Facebook executive lost her husband in 2015. She says, "Rather than offer to do something, it's often better to do anything. Just do something specific." Her new book is called <em>Option B</em>.</p><p>(Image credit: Alex Brandon/AP)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=525453115' /> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:09:00 +0000 NPR Books: Gripping Comics Memoir 'Hostage' Puts You In The Room Where Nothing Happens http://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525404344/gripping-comics-memoir-hostage-puts-you-in-the-room-where-nothing-happens?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books <img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/04/24/hostage.interior10_wide-b8d66da30de8dc867aaad2e6f22eeee1910d93ce.jpg?s=600' alt='The haunting opening page of Guy Delisle's Hostage.'/><p>Cartoonist Guy Delisle departs from the first-person travelogue format which has won him acclaim to chronicle the true story of a man kidnapped and detained for months in the Caucasus region in 1997.</p><p>(Image credit: Drawn and Quarterly)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=525404344' /> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:12:00 +0000 NPR Books: Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/25/525533732/psychiatrist-recalls-heartbreak-and-hope-on-bellevues-prison-ward?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books <img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/04/25/bellevue-1_wide-51dd55b7c415dd7fbc868806d8caf9914f5a9da3.jpg?s=600' alt='The inmates in Bellevue are awaiting trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from sleeping on the subway to murder.'/><p>Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.</p><p>(Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=525533732' /> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:44:00 +0000 NPR Books: 'Anything Is Possible' Is Unafraid To Be Gentle http://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/523586746/anything-is-possible-is-unafraid-to-be-gentle?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books <img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/04/20/Anything_Is_Possible_wide-112ef8eb57bfda70ae1f47a8ec571b1e8c9562ca.jpg?s=600' alt='Anything is Possible'/><p>Elizabeth Strout's new novel-in-stories is a welcome salve for troubled times. A companion volume to last year's <em>My Name is Lucy Barton</em>, <em>Anything is Possible</em> looks at the people Lucy grew up with.</p><p>(Image credit: Marian Carrasquero/NPR)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=523586746' /> Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:00:01 +0000
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