Nonfiction

Anne Lamott discusses grief and forgiveness in Small Victories

Anne Lamott has become known for her ability to write about such diverse topics as becoming a single mother after recovering from addiction, her son as a teenaged father, the craft of writing, and her faith with openness, grace and self-deprecating humor. In the 35 years since her first book…

Melissa DuclosDecember 5, 2014

Nonfiction

Kunstler’s The New Nation recreates Washington’s most famous Christmas

What was your most memorable Christmas night? If you’re George Washington, it was probably the evening of December 25, 1776, when you made a nighttime crossing of the Delaware River in order to launch a surprise attack against Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey the next morning. The operation helped…

Michael RuscoeDecember 15, 2014

Nonfiction

Unbelievable eye-popping sculptures — WIN: Pumpkins by Ray Villafane

For most of us, carving pumpkins consists of primary shapes and trying not to cut our fingers off. But for Villafane Studios, pumpkin carving is truly an art form. For the past eight years they’ve been turning pumpkins into celebrity portraits, eye-popping tableaux, and 3D masterpieces that have earned them…

Rachel CarterOctober 31, 2014

Nonfiction

Hearing the Voice of the Woman Behind the Veil

By Bina Shah If you go to a bookstore, chances are you'll see a lot of veiled women looking at you. They gaze mysteriously at you from behind veils covering their faces, revealing only large, dark, kohl-lined eyes. Their veils may be black, or they may be coloured and decorated…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 3, 2014

Nonfiction

Imagine if they had cable news: The raucos political election of 1844 — WIN a copy

As this year’s mid-term elections approach, the modern political zeitgeist tells us that America is more fractured today than it has ever been; that the rift between left and right is a chasm that can’t be breached. But a new book by author and journalist John Bicknell shows us that…

Michael RuscoeNovember 1, 2014

Nonfiction

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty More: Just as good the second time

Plenty More is here, and there is plenty to love in it. Few cookbooks have been so ardently anticipated as this follow-up volume to Yotam Ottolenghi’s 2011 sensation, Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi (Chronicle). To cut to the chase, the new volume, this one subtitled Vibrant Vegetable Cooking…

Karen BermanNovember 7, 2014

Nonfiction

12 fascinating things about Judy Garland

There’s a lot we don’t know about Judy Garland since she never wrote an autobiography, but Judy Garland on Judy Garland; Interviews and Encounters, edited by Randy L. Schmidt (Chicago Review Press, 2014) is the closest we’ll ever get to a Garland memoir. It’s a collection of terrific articles about…

Cathy PerlmutterNovember 13, 2014

Nonfiction

Barb Schmidt has a de-stressing strategy for the holidays with The Practice

So it’s Thanksgiving again, and the entire family is over for dinner. Uncle Phil has had a little too much wine. Your teenage daughter is fighting with you over seeing her boyfriend, who you can’t stand. Grandpa is on a rant over the Republicans (or is it the Democrats?). And…

Michael RuscoeNovember 20, 2014

Nonfiction

Women writers and illustrators soar to new heights in the comic book industry

So the Mighty Thor—at least on the printed page—is now a woman. Rarely has a gender-bend made as many headlines as this one, with both fans and non-fans alike weighing in with thoughts and opinions on the new Goddess of Thunder. But as a new heroine picks up Thor’s hammer…

Michael RuscoeOctober 11, 2014

Nonfiction

Defining her destiny in the face of domestic violence

Domestic violence still happens far too often. Despite national attention, it happens in homes every day in every state in our country. One out of every four women will experience domestic violence during their lifetime. I am one of those women. My story of abuse began at age 19. It…

BookTrib Guest AuthorOctober 16, 2014

Nonfiction

How fish sauce traveled the world and became ketchup in The Language of Food

It took a while for academia to acknowledge the role food of in history. In his 2003 memoir, The Apprentice, Jacques Pépin tells of the long-ago Columbia University professor who forbade him to focus on the history of French food when the then-young chef was studying for his Ph.D. (Yes,…

Karen BermanOctober 17, 2014

Nonfiction

WIN: Bring Your Lunch. It’s packed with tasty tips for better eating

Every summer as I was growing up, my family would take road trips. To save money and time, my parents would pack a cooler, and we would stop for lunch “along the road.” In spite of the variety of sandwiches that might include homemade ham salad, or a loaf of…

Ann NordlandOctober 20, 2014

Nonfiction

WIN: Mysteries of the Unknown. The creepy, the kooky, the mysterious and spooky

What really happened to Amelia Earhart? Is the Kennedy family truly cursed? Do the spirits of the dead haunt a house in Amityville, Long Island? And why did it take the Boston Red Sox 86 years to win a World Series after selling Babe Ruth to the hated rival New…

Michael RuscoeOctober 26, 2014

Nonfiction

From city dweller to Vermonter: Mud Season’s Ellen Stimson on love, humor and Good Grief

After a family vacation to Vermont, Ellen Stimson and her family did what most of us only dream about – they packed up their lives and moved to the mountains, fantasizing about small town life, green trees and chicken coops. They certainly got the trees and the chicken coops, but…

Rachel CarterOctober 6, 2014

Nonfiction

Liz Prince’s Tomboy looks at growing up outside of gender norms

Liz Prince's graphic memoir Tomboy opens with the cartoonish 4-year-old Liz screaming and crying as her parents huddle around her. "I'm just trying to get her to wear this dress," her exasperated mother reports about the garment sent by her grandmother. Two pages later, after unsuccessful coaxing, her mother turns…

Tahneer OksmanSeptember 21, 2014

Nonfiction

50 years after the Warren Commission Report, a graphic novel sheds fresh light

Fifty years ago this week, the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy—better known as the Warren Commission—released its official finding: an 889-page report asserting that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby similarly acted alone in killing Oswald, who was…

Michael RuscoeSeptember 27, 2014

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Anne Lamott discusses grief and forgiveness in Small Victories

Kunstler’s The New Nation recreates Washington’s most famous Christmas

Unbelievable eye-popping sculptures — WIN: Pumpkins by Ray Villafane

Hearing the Voice of the Woman Behind the Veil

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty More: Just as good the second time

12 fascinating things about Judy Garland

Barb Schmidt has a de-stressing strategy for the holidays with The Practice

Women writers and illustrators soar to new heights in the comic book industry

Defining her destiny in the face of domestic violence

How fish sauce traveled the world and became ketchup in The Language of Food

WIN: Bring Your Lunch. It’s packed with tasty tips for better eating

WIN: Mysteries of the Unknown. The creepy, the kooky, the mysterious and spooky

From city dweller to Vermonter: Mud Season’s Ellen Stimson on love, humor and Good Grief

Liz Prince’s Tomboy looks at growing up outside of gender norms

50 years after the Warren Commission Report, a graphic novel sheds fresh light

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