Diane Parrish

Books About Cooks, and the Ingredients That Can’t Be Measured

Like most families, we have a few Thanksgiving traditions. Early morning we all make our way to the starting line of our local Turkey Trot road race. Some of us run, some walk, some ride in strollers. Later, everyone gathers at my house for a more-or-less traditional feast. There are…

Diane ParrishNovember 20, 2024

Fiction Listicles

Classics and Comedy: Books That Mix Serious Themes with Surprising Humor

Sometimes a book that’s known for one thing — revealing the mores of 19th Century English country life, for example, or capturing the eternal struggle between good and evil — is so famous for that one thing that no one pays attention to the equally noteworthy humor it contains. The…

Diane ParrishOctober 21, 2024

Listicles Miscellany

5 Books About Forests, Trees and the People Who See Both of Them

If you live in the Northeast, as I do, you are well aware of the signs: maple trees beginning to flame with color; ornamental grasses waving their feathery tassels in the wind; tomato plants spent and wilted from the effort of packaging all those seeds into edible containers. Autumn is upon…

Diane ParrishSeptember 20, 2024

Listicles Miscellany

Diane Parrish’s Lit Garden Blooms With Books of August

When William Faulkner was asked about the meaning of the title of his book Light in August, he said, “in August ... there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality…

Diane ParrishAugust 20, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

Is Forgiveness Ever Easy? Two Authors Get to the Heart of It

We all love a climactic moment of reconciliation when one person proclaims to another “I forgive you!” in a scene that ends with joyful tears, a loving embrace, and the apparent release of some kind of pixie dust that obliterates all pain. While I long to trust the magic and…

Diane ParrishJuly 19, 2023

Diane Parrish

Books About Cooks, and the Ingredients That Can’t Be Measured

Classics and Comedy: Books That Mix Serious Themes with Surprising Humor

5 Books About Forests, Trees and the People Who See Both of Them

Diane Parrish’s Lit Garden Blooms With Books of August

Is Forgiveness Ever Easy? Two Authors Get to the Heart of It

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