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Miscellany

A Drug Cartel-fueled Book List for All Narcos Lovers!

If you haven’t watched Netflix’s Narcos yet, you need to rectify that situation immediately. It follows the story of history’s most infamous drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, whose Colombian cocaine empire made him one of the richest men in the world in the early 1990s. Season 1, which premiered in 2015,…

Katie HiresSeptember 2, 2016

Miscellany Pop Culture

“Beautiful Boy,” From Book(s) to Movie

Rarely do two books equal one movie, but such is the math of “Beautiful Boy” starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet. It’s the story of one family’s battle with addiction, based on Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the memoir by journalist David Sheff, and…

Joanna PoncavageNovember 20, 2018

Fiction

Mike Bond Launches Book Two of ’60s Coming of Age Historical Saga

We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it … —Billy Joel, 1989 Firmly rooted in fact and history, Freedom (Big City Press) is highly readable, bitterly nostalgic, romantic, a little heartbreaking and surprisingly edifying. In this book, the second in a series…

Sherri DaleyNovember 4, 2021

Fiction Recommended

Novel Explores Surviving the Hood Like a Game of Cards

As Fat Bread, a kid trying to navigate the rough streets of inner-city Detroit in the 1980s, explores one of the many hustles presented to him, Bram, a slick operator and “businessman,” invites him for a game of chess. Asked to make the first move of a game he doesn’t…

Jim AlkonNovember 17, 2022

A Drug Cartel-fueled Book List for All Narcos Lovers!

“Beautiful Boy,” From Book(s) to Movie

Mike Bond Launches Book Two of ’60s Coming of Age Historical Saga

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