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Iconic Bookstore Owner’s Passing Conjures Up Memories of a Love Affair With Books

In my past life as a one-man consulting business, I always used to say that my sales department (me) would shut down when my manufacturing department (me) had to do the work that the sales department sold. Similarly, I always had trouble juggling my intense desire to seek out and…

Jim AlkonMay 16, 2022

Nonfiction

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…

BookTribAugust 26, 2020

Fiction

BookTrib Chats with Jill Orr on Plotting the Perfect Murder and Writing Messy Millennials

Crime novels are one of the most popular fiction genres, so it is difficult for writers to keep it fresh and explore new twists on the traditional whodunit. Author Jill Orr is successfully among those who have. niche all of her own. Rather than featuring your seasoned crime solver or…

BookTribApril 2, 2018

Children's Books Miscellany

Author of the Seminal “The Phantom Tollbooth,” Norton Juster, Passes Away at 91

Bill Greene/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Norton Juster captured the hearts and minds of many a reader with his uniquely playful acclaimed novel The Phantom Tollbooth, published in 1961. He died earlier this week in his Northampton, MA, home at the age of 91. His housemate, the talented Jules Feiffer, illustrated…

Judy MorenoMarch 10, 2021

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“Dava Shastri’s Last Day” Prompts Her, and Us, To Perform a Personal Perspective Overhaul

Fate is not an option. Instead, she takes charge of the when, where and how — though, as she soon learns, not everything can be so tightly scripted. In Dava Shastri’s Last Day (Grand Central), author Kirthana Ramisetti weaves a world in which the secrets of Dava’s past are free…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitNovember 30, 2021

Iconic Bookstore Owner’s Passing Conjures Up Memories of a Love Affair With Books

Iconic American Journalist Gail Sheehy Dies At 83

BookTrib Chats with Jill Orr on Plotting the Perfect Murder and Writing Messy Millennials

Author of the Seminal “The Phantom Tollbooth,” Norton Juster, Passes Away at 91

“Dava Shastri’s Last Day” Prompts Her, and Us, To Perform a Personal Perspective Overhaul

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