Sunday Books: coverage for October 10, 2010
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The biography of bluegrass musicians whose lives are interrupted by war.
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In Tom Franklin’s Southern gothic tale “Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter,” two men find their long friendship complicated by secrets and misunderstandings.
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Brooklyn-based writer and musician Sara Marcus deserves a medal just for daring to write a book about Riot Grrrl, the fiercely uncompromising feminist movement of the 1990s.
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This first part of a 20th century trilogy weaves five families from five countries across almost 1,000 pages. But it’s not enough.
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Four groups of characters are weaved together to form a larger picture on memory and loss.
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Ron Chernow offers an epic, cradle-to-grave biography of America’s first president. Never before has the Founding Father been rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume.
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Trash A Novel Andy Mulligan David Fickling/Random House: 240 pp., $19.99 Popular young adult fiction is dominated by fantasy and tales that trade in the tropes of high school hierarchy and unrequited love.
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The satirist gets a little less personal, penning a collection of moral-optional, fable-like tales of animals (many sporting distinctly human traits).
