Posted Tue, 07/31/2012 - 11:37am by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2012
Publisher:
Ice Cube Press
Neal Smith (born 1920) spent four years in WWII as a bomber pilot, became an attorney in 1950, was a U.S. Congressman for 35 years (the longest-serving Iowan in the U.S. House), and has been a consultant in international relations, including Hungary and Lithuania. He was the sponsor of legislation to establish the Neil Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa. Read more
Posted Fri, 03/02/2012 - 8:02pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
March 2012
Publisher:
William Morrow
The author of 39 books (as of 2009), Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. Among his best-known works are Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, all of which I read long ago. He has won many awards for his science fiction and fantasy fiction novels and short stories. Read more
Posted Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:32pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
November 2011
Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She has a degree in English and creative writing from the University of Alabama. For nine years she worked in New York in magazine publishing and marketing. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This, her first novel, was the #1 Bestseller in the NYT and it was very highly recommended to me by my wife and her book club. Read more
Posted Fri, 11/11/2011 - 5:14pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2011
Abraham Verghese is Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, where he is now an adjunct professor. Read more
Posted Fri, 11/11/2011 - 11:28am by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2011
Lawrence Hill is the author of the novels Any Known Blood and Some Great Thing. For Someone Knows My Name, he won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and is a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. This novel came highly recommended by my wife’s book club. Read more
Posted Tue, 05/10/2011 - 3:27pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2011
Publisher:
Viking Penguin
Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments. In 1993 he won the Booker Prize. Doyle is a native of Dublin. He established a creative writing center, “Fighting Words,” which opened in Dublin in 2009. This novel is about life of the very poor living in Dublin’s slums. Read more
Posted Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:07pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2011
Michelle Hoover teaches writing at Boston College. She has been a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholar, the Phillip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and won in 2005 the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction. This is her debut novel. Read more
Posted Tue, 08/10/2010 - 4:36pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
August 2010
Marcus J. Borg, professor emeritus of Oregon State University who held the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture, wrote 4 NYT bestsellers: Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, The Last Week, and Jesus. I read these 4 and 7 (so far) other books by him. (For his books I’ve read, click on his name.) Read more
Posted Sat, 07/10/2010 - 1:53pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2010
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Shannon Ravenel, series editor of The Best American Short Stories for 13 years, has edited New Stories from the South since its introduction in 1987. I was given this book, with of its “new” Faulkner short story, because the giver knew I had read all Faulkner’s novels and short stories. Read more
Posted Fri, 07/09/2010 - 12:03pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
July 2010
Publisher:
Grove Press; Reprint edition
As of 2008 James Howard Kunstler is the author of nine novels and three nonfiction books, The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, and The Long Emergency. This novel is far from a typical post-apocalyptic novel. It was a highly rated book by my wife’s Book Club last year. Read more
