brianthurleyFrom convict to heroine: the fall and rise of Mary Bryantverified_publisherThe Guardian - Sarah HughesMeg Keneally tells how childhood stories told by her father, Schindler’s Ark author Thomas, inspired her novel
brianthurleyIn 'What You Have Heard Is True,' A Poet Bears Witness To Devastating Civil Warverified_publisherNPR - Craig Morgan TeicherWhat You Have Heard Is True By Carolyn Forché Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleWhat You Have Heard Is TrueAuthorCarolyn Forché Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Independent Bookstores The poet Carolyn Forché was 27 when a stranger showed up on her doorstep, …
brianthurleyA Place of Vanishing: Barbara Newhall Follett and the Woman in the Woods | Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.orgTHANKSGIVING DAY, 1948. Harold Huckins is deer-hunting at twilight. He is on Pulsifer Hill in Holderness, New Hampshire, following the Durgin Brook …
brianthurley9 New Books We Recommend This Week (Published 2019)verified_publisherThe New York TimesSometimes the news gets a little — heavy? Terrifying? Relentless? That’s O.K. We feel it too. And while we would never advise you to stop looking at the front page (those reporters are good), we can offer you some escapist reading when you’re ready for a break. Six of this week’s nine recommended …
brianthurleySalman Rushdie Reviews a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia (Published 2019)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Salman RushdieTHE OLD DRIFT By Namwali Serpell Something is happening in African literature: The women are coming. For decades now, a river of original and important writing by female authors has been flowing out of that continent — books by writers such as Marlene van Niekerk, of whose second novel Liesl …
brianthurleyA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Geniusamazon.co.uk - Dave Eggers‘Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I’d say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too’ …
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