1960s

Atmospheric and Lyrical Coming-of-Age Novel From Pulitzer Winner Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley gives readers a fully atmospheric novel brimming with grit and glitter. In Lucky, we watch one woman’s rise to fame and the journey across changing times to find herself. Folk Musician's Rise to Fame When we meet Jodie Rattler, she is six years old and…

Kelsey HallApril 23, 2024

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Fiction

Ellen Barker Takes Us to See a Community Divided by History and Prejudice in “East of Troost”

It’s the story of countless American cities. A harsh line severs the community, cutting Black residents off from more affluent white neighborhoods. Those who do venture across are at risk of being met with threats, violence and displacement. Whether the line was established during the segregation era or was quietly…

BookTribSeptember 6, 2022

Fiction

Award-Winning Coming-Of-Age Story Set Amidst China’s Cultural Revolution

George Lee’s debut novel Dancing in the River (Guernica Editions) offers a rare and intimate view into the coming of age of a young boy in a sleepy mountain village along the Yangtze River, during and after China’s Cultural Revolution. From grammar school through college, Little Bright maneuvers a turbulent…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 18, 2022

Miscellany Pop Culture

“Queen of Kenosha:” A Guitar-Playing, Nazi-Busting Heroine

October is Graphic Novel Writing Month, and to celebrate, why not try reading a gem from this genre? Queen of Kenosha, (Animal Media Group) written by Howard Shapiro and illustrated by Erica Chan, is a vibrant tale featuring a heroine who is passionate about the work she does, both in the…

Rebecca ProulxOctober 3, 2018

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Find Out How Deep Police Corruption Runs in “Black, White and Gray All Over”

Compton, California, is a city known for gangs, drugs, gangsta rap and, at one time a murder rate 10 times the national average. Black White and Gray All Over, a memoir by Frederick Douglass Reynolds and subtitled “A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement” is an insider’s view…

Joanna PoncavageApril 21, 2022

Nonfiction Save the World

Free Love and a Food Revolution in the U.S. Diet

We’re all just a bunch of easygoing hippies--at least where are stomachs are concerned. Skeptical? Jonathan Kauffman, IACP and James Beard Award-winning food writer, unpacks the impact of this colorful group of people on our current diet in his book Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We…

Rebecca ProulxJanuary 23, 2019

Nonfiction

Gloria Steinem Biopic Will Bring the Icon’s Memoir to Life

Julianne Moore is set to star as Steinem, with director Julie Taymor at the helm. As acclaimed masters in their fields, both women bring as much to the table as the feminist icon herself. Moore had an Oscar-winning turn in Still Alice, the film of Lisa Genova’s novel about early-onset…

Early Bird BooksNovember 21, 2017

Nonfiction

Steven Gaines is Insightful and Hilarious in ‘One of These Things First’

In the memoir One of These Things First, Steven Gaines, a gay 15-year-old boy from a conservative Jewish family in the 1960s, humorously shares a bizarre account of his teenage years in Brooklyn and a stint at Payne Whitney, a private mental institution in NYC. Steven recalls a multitude of childhood…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 2, 2017

Fiction Young Adult

“Shine Until Tomorrow” Tells of a Girl’s Transformative Journey Through the Summer of Love

What do you get when you combine The Wizard of Oz with Back to the Future? You get a delightfully nostalgic romp in Shine Until Tomorrow (Rare Bird Books) by Carla Malden. Through the eyes of Tamara Caldwell, a.k.a. Mari, and the lens of her vintage Leica camera, we behold…

Valerie Taylor, author of "What’s Not Said" and "What’s Not True"May 13, 2021

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A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

Once upon a time, Thomas Hart Benton was a household name, known widely as America’s foremost Regionalist painter. A prolific chronicler of the nation during the good and bad times of the 1920s through World War II, the Kansas City native studied art in Paris and New York City and…

Claudia KeenanMarch 1, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Single Motherhood Collides With Creative Ambition in the Mid-20th-Century Art Scene

Lis Bensley, author of the thoughtful and provocative The Glimpse (Troubador Publishing), no doubt would be flattered to have a primary theme of her work compared to this description of James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man: “the essential search for voice and meaning that every…

Jim AlkonApril 14, 2022

Fiction

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

It’s an up-from-the-slums journey for one Blaise Hill, a smart, upbeat young woman fresh out of secondary school and ready to plunge whole-heartedly into a life-changing career. Set in two world capitals, Sydney and London, and spanning the years between 1957 and 1962, readers follow the adventures of this intrepid…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 24, 2021

Fiction

“The Musician” Will Stop at Nothing to Have His Name Among the Stars

Musicians are often tragic characters. They struggle with poverty, their own spirit and passion, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, depression and love. The list of accomplished musicians who came to ruinous ends is long — from Billie Holiday to Amy Winehouse, Charlie Parker to Kurt Cobain. But Mike Shaw’s novel The…

Sherri DaleySeptember 13, 2021

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1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

“The words ‘knocked up’ … signified disaster on a mythic scale, the termination of respectability, the cancellation of any claim to future success and happiness, an irreversible and public shaming.” While that phrase still carries a certain amount of stigma in 2022, particularly for the young and unwed, it doesn’t…

Chelsea CicconeJanuary 6, 2022

Fiction

Diana Grillo Stories Tackle Writhing Family Dynamics

The challenge of a good short story is the ability to convey complicated ideas and feelings to the reader in a limited amount of pages. Diana Grillo, author of An Accidental Murder and Other Stories, manages to easily draw sympathy from readers for her struggling characters, diving straight into the…

Rebecca ProulxMarch 26, 2019

Fiction

‘Yonkers Yonkers!’: Patricia Vaccarino’s New Book Explores Racial Tensions and Friendship during Woodstock

Author and PR specialist Patricia Vaccarino's new book, YONKERS Yonkers! A Story of Race and Redemption, is an enriching and beautiful narrative of friendship, breaking social boundaries, and music. In the time of Woodstock, the Vietnam War, the Rolling Stones and more, YONKERS Yonkers! looks at social and racial conventions of a tumultuous and…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaJanuary 24, 2018

Ellen Barker Takes Us to See a Community Divided by History and Prejudice in “East of Troost”

Award-Winning Coming-Of-Age Story Set Amidst China’s Cultural Revolution

“Queen of Kenosha:” A Guitar-Playing, Nazi-Busting Heroine

Find Out How Deep Police Corruption Runs in “Black, White and Gray All Over”

Free Love and a Food Revolution in the U.S. Diet

Gloria Steinem Biopic Will Bring the Icon’s Memoir to Life

Steven Gaines is Insightful and Hilarious in ‘One of These Things First’

“Shine Until Tomorrow” Tells of a Girl’s Transformative Journey Through the Summer of Love

A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

Single Motherhood Collides With Creative Ambition in the Mid-20th-Century Art Scene

“The Royal Correspondent” Travels Internationally With Lofty Career Goals and Deadly Secrets

“The Musician” Will Stop at Nothing to Have His Name Among the Stars

1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

Diana Grillo Stories Tackle Writhing Family Dynamics

‘Yonkers Yonkers!’: Patricia Vaccarino’s New Book Explores Racial Tensions and Friendship during Woodstock

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