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Iconic American Journalist Gail Sheehy Dies At 83

American journalism icon, lecturer and four-time NYT bestselling author Gail Sheehy died this week at the age of 83. Known for her landmark book Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (1976), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for three years and was named “one of the ten…
BookTrib
August 26, 2020
Nonfiction

Carnage in America: The Fall of the Republican Party

POLITICO’s Tim Alberta, author of American Carnage (Harper), asked a “blissfully retired” John Boehner over lunch whether he believed that the Republican Party “could survive Trumpism.” Boehner’s response? “There is no Rep—” Here he stops, hesitates, and when pressed, offers “There is . But what does that even mean? Donald…
Jeff Daugherty
July 17, 2019
Nonfiction

Bret Easton Ellis Continues to Offend and Astonish

The man knows how to touch a nerve. Relishes it, in fact, despite his protestations that he “was never good at realizing what might offend someone anyway.” Please. This is Bret Easton Ellis we’re talking about, author of Less Than Zero, creator of Patrick Bateman, Twitter provocateur par excellence. He’s…
Casey Barrett
April 15, 2019
Nonfiction

Searching for America’s Moral Imagination

Rooted in common sense, Robert Reich explains what he believes is the common good and how it constitutes the very essence of our nation. The former Secretary of Commerce, political commentator, and college professor joined Just the Right Book's host Roxanne to talk about his latest book The Common Good (Knopf).…
Just The Right Book Podcast
March 22, 2019
Nonfiction

“Golden Handcuffs:” The Secret History of Trump’s Women

How does he get away with this behavior in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp? And what are the roots of this profound misogyny? Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women (Gallery Books) by Newsweek national politics correspondent Nina Burleigh, answers these questions by examining the six most important…
Jim Alkon
November 1, 2018
Nonfiction

*NEW COLUMN*: ‘At the Nobel Prize Banquet’ by Pia de Jong

BookTrib.com is happy to welcome prize-winning Dutch literary novelist and newspaper columnist Pia de Jong. Pia's memoir, Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition, is her first book in English.  The Nobel Prize is Pia's latest installment as a BookTrib featured columnist. Her first article, All the Glittering Prizes,…
Pia de Jong
February 28, 2018
Nonfiction

Famed Gossip Columnist Liz Smith Dies at Age 94

Liz Smith poses with Bette Midler. Image courtesy of The Austrailian. Smith published her own memoir in 2001 where she came out as a bisexual woman telling The Advocate, “I think that my relationships with women were always much more emotionally satisfying and comfortable.” Smith suffered a stroke in July; she…
Aisha K. Staggers
November 13, 2017
FictionMiscellanyPop Culture

Blood on His Tiny, Tiny Hands: Meet MacTrump

As the tides turn and impeachment inquiries fill the news, MacTrump arrives at just the right time. Between the whole Ukraine mess and embarrassing moments on the world stage, a potential Shakespearean fall from grace is ripe for parody. Power struggles, bitter rivalries, betrayals and a dash of comic relief…
BookTrib
October 2, 2019

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