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A Spiritual Invitation to Embrace Common Truths About God Regardless of Religion

“It is high time that in the global order our major religious institutions assert themselves as one solitary unit and, alongside our governments and commercial enterprises, work to eradicate hunger, poverty, injustice, gender and racial inequality, greed, war and other evil.” That, in a nutshell, is the central point of…

BookTribJanuary 26, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Presidential Funny Business: Old Abe Had Plenty of Both Wisdom and Wit

It was in the heat of one of the famous Lincoln – Douglas debates in 1858 for the Illinois Senate seat that the Democrat incumbent Stephen Douglas accused Abraham Lincoln of waffling on his position on slavery, the most contentious topic of the times. At one point, he called Lincoln…

Jim AlkonFebruary 16, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Ann Patchett’s Latest and Greatest: Graceful and Forgiving Essays of Brave Self-Awareness

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett is a grace-filled, insightful compilation of narrative essays of her literary life. They are deeply personal, self-revelatory articles tackling themes recognizable and relatable to readers. Most of the essays have been previously published elsewhere, some appearing in the “Notes from Ann” and “Shop Dog…

Linda HitchcockNovember 23, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

“I’m furious with Mother. She stole my childhood … I feel pierced because she played on my fears. I trusted what she did was best for me, but she met her own needs, not mine. She took advantage of a scared, defenseless little boy.” That is one of the hundreds…

Jim AlkonSeptember 14, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Alice McDermott Shares Writerly Wisdom in “What About the Baby?”

For almost four decades, award-winning fiction author, essayist and teacher Alice McDermott has impressed readers with novels about loss, resilience and nostalgia that bind strong-knit communities. What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is her newest work, a collection of essays about…

Gisèle LewisAugust 16, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

Samuel Antek — first violinist with the famed NBC Symphony Orchestra for 17 years — captures what it was like to perform under Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who many consider to be the greatest conductor of the mid-20th century. In This Was Toscanini, his musical memoir published in 1963, Antek shared…

K.L. RomoAugust 17, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“To Poison a Nation” is an Eye-Opening New Historical Offering

Written history that starts with a seemingly insignificant incident is often more enlightening than a sweeping narrative. Such is the case with To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America (The New Press), a stunning new book by Andrew Baker,…

Claudia KeenanJune 15, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

“He might as well have told her that he was planning to jump off a bridge in the hope of bouncing the cancer out of his body.” About 650,000 cancer patients receive chemotherapy in an outpatient oncology clinic every year in the U.S. Rodney Stamps was not going to be…

Jim AlkonAugust 11, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Intriguing Literary Genius Philip Roth Comes to Light in a Brilliant New Biography

“Don’t try to rehabilitate me,” Philip Roth told biographer Blake Bailey. “Just make me interesting.” Based on the early returns, Bailey has done just that in his much-anticipated Philip Roth: The Biography (W.W. Norton & Company). —∞— “A monumental gift in the realm of international letters. I wept and railed,…

BookTribApril 5, 2021

Nonfiction

Ian McKellen Bio Illuminates the Myth, the Man, the Magneto

In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a new audience, McKellen had a thriving career a lifetime…

BookTribNovember 25, 2019

Nonfiction

“Killing Pat Garrett,” the Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

The sentence that follows from Brazil, from the recollection of a county sheriff in Las Cruces, NM in 1908, is the basis for David G. Thomas’s incredibly researched work including hundreds of notes, 112 images, over 100 chapters, four appendixes and a 100-year timeline: “’Lock me up, I’ve just killed…

Jim AlkonOctober 23, 2019

Nonfiction

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Win a Moving Memoir

This week's AuthorBuzz giveaway features a riveting memoir on changing your life's path. Don't miss out, read more on the book and how to win a free copy from the author below. Dear Reader, The best seats I ever had at Madison Square Garden were at my mother’s wedding, and…

AuthorBuzzMay 22, 2019

Nonfiction

James Walvin Illuminates the End of Slavery

In Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires (Pegasus Books), James Walvin traces the rise and fall of the transatlantic slave trade with a focus on the constant tension that intrinsically defined the relationship between the slave and his or her master. From the outset, the slave owner had to…

Garrett SweitzerSeptember 3, 2019

Nonfiction

‘The Eves of Our Destruction’: Can Citizens be Ignorant and Free at the Same Time?

As authors, we tend to specialize in writing fiction or nonfiction. A few writers are able to successfully write both entertaining fiction and erudite nonfiction but in a terrible irony, increasingly, our society seems to be so easily manipulated in blurring the distinction. In 1816 in a letter to John…

Roy BerelowitzNovember 3, 2017

Nonfiction

On Writing, Friendship and Healing: One Writer’s Journey to the Center of Self

I met my friend and co-writer 10 years ago. With every year that went by, our friendship quickly escalated from a simple friendship to a soulmate friendship. We talked about everything and anything and it was easy. We both felt no judgment from the other and it made us feel…

Ariana MansourNovember 3, 2017

Nonfiction

MTV Suspect’s iO Tillett Wright Answers One Question about ‘Darling Days’

The crap we go through while establishing our identity (shakes head back and forth). We often face ridicule for being different or criticized for being too much like Joe Shmoe walking down Park Avenue. You can't win. Oftentimes people assimilate to the status quo or to what society labels as “normal.”…

Matt GillickSeptember 21, 2016

A Spiritual Invitation to Embrace Common Truths About God Regardless of Religion

Presidential Funny Business: Old Abe Had Plenty of Both Wisdom and Wit

Ann Patchett’s Latest and Greatest: Graceful and Forgiving Essays of Brave Self-Awareness

“Surviving Our Parents’ Mistakes” May Be Less Painful With the Support of This Book

Alice McDermott Shares Writerly Wisdom in “What About the Baby?”

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

“To Poison a Nation” is an Eye-Opening New Historical Offering

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

The Intriguing Literary Genius Philip Roth Comes to Light in a Brilliant New Biography

Ian McKellen Bio Illuminates the Myth, the Man, the Magneto

“Killing Pat Garrett,” the Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Win a Moving Memoir

James Walvin Illuminates the End of Slavery

On Writing, Friendship and Healing: One Writer’s Journey to the Center of Self

MTV Suspect’s iO Tillett Wright Answers One Question about ‘Darling Days’

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