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For Bayfield writer and artist Esther Belin, her new book of poems, Of Cartography, was a long time coming. Belin , whose 1999 book From the Belly of My Beauty won the American Book Award from the...
DATE: Oct. 12, 2017 | UPDATED: 3 days 14 hours ago | CATEGORY: Books
LOS ANGELES – Garth Brooks is taking a long look back at his career in a five-part anthology series comprising of books and unreleased music, the first of which will go on sale in November. The...
DATE: Oct. 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
The Quality of Mercy, a debut novel by Katayoun Medhat, is garnering kudos from across the literary landscape. Comparisons to Tony Hillerman, Craig Johnson and others are being bandied about. This...
DATE: Sept. 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
Before he became a publisher of posed flesh and prose, Hugh Hefner dreamed of becoming a cartoonist. Young Hugh knew that the striking visual line could help deliver a message, and so he sketched...
DATE: Sept. 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
Megafire, by Michael Kodas, could not be a more timely, well-researched book written about this huge threat by Mother Nature to those of us living in the western United States. This part of the...
DATE: Sept. 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
Emil Ferris, having brought exquisite craft to her debut graphic novel at age 55, brought extreme gratitude to the stage over the weekend, as she was twice honored at the 2017 Ignatz Awards in...
DATE: Sept. 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
Some dads take their boys fishing, some throw around a ball. Stephen King and his son imagine a plague that knocks out half of Earth’s population. That’s essentially the plot of Sleeping Beauties,...
DATE: Sept. 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
Now is a great time for fans of characters and books about the West. Two of the best writers who shine a light on our part of the nation have published new novels. C.J. Box’s Paradise Valley,...
DATE: Aug. 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
BANGOR, Maine – Stephen King is retaliating against President Donald Trump for blocking him on Twitter. In a post late Thursday, the Maine horror author said he would block Trump from seeing the...
DATE: Aug. 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
“Frankly, I can never be far enough from Hollywood,” wrote lantern-jawed Bruce Campbell in his 2001 memoir If Chins Could Kill. Now, in this variety pack of “further confessions” titled Hail to the...
DATE: Aug. 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
Stew Mosberg didn’t start off as a published writer. The Brooklyn, New York, native had spent his first career in package design and branding in Manhattan. It was during that time that he first...
DATE: Aug. 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
In 2002, at the end of a festive January evening, I was made a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, a literary society devoted to Sherlock Holmes. As part of what is called an investiture, a new...
DATE: Aug. 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Books
