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Book Review: ‘Cujo’ character returns as one of 12 stories in Stephen King’s ‘You Like It Darker’

By ROB MERRILL
May 20, 2024 4:57 pm - In Stephen King’s world, “It” is a loaded word. It’s hard not to picture Pennywise the Clown haunting the sewers of Derry, Maine, of course, but in the horror writer’s ne...
Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92

By HILLEL ITALIE
May 14, 2024 12:15 pm - Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story wri...
Batavia’s Books Between Bites welcomes author Karl Bruhn on May 16

By Becky Hoag, Books Between Bites
May 13, 2024 8:55 pm - Batavia's popular monthly lunchtime book program, Books Between Bites, concludes for the season on Thursday, May 16, with Batavian Karl Bruhn sharing a presentation about...
Book review: Veronica Roth taps into her Polish roots for ‘When Among Crows,’ a lore-packed novella

By DONNA EDWARDS
May 13, 2024 1:35 pm - Dymitr is on a personal mission, and it starts with facing the mythical leszy who’s guarding the fern flower as it blooms for the summer solstice. “When Among Crows,” a n...
Book Review: Anonymous public servants are the heart of George Stephanopoulos’ ‘Situation Room’

By ANDREW DeMILLO
May 13, 2024 11:04 am - The biggest challenge for an author tackling the history of the Situation Room, the basement room of the White House where some of the biggest intelligence crises have be...
Book review: ‘Challenger’ is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy

By ANDREW DeMILLO
May 13, 2024 10:57 am - When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over a minute after its launch in 1986, it pierced the dreams of millions who watched the tragedy unfold live on telev...
Book review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships

By ANN LEVIN
May 06, 2024 10:38 am - Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friend...
Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural world in ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’

By ANITA SNOW
May 06, 2024 10:33 am - Birdwatching has become a cherished pastime for many since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people stuck at home for months looked out their windows for entertain...
Book review: Rachel Khong’s novel ‘Real Americans’ explores race, class and cultural identity

By ANN LEVIN
Apr 29, 2024 1:02 pm - Rachel Khong’s “Real Americans” wrestles with issues of class, race and the genetic component of disease. Though largely a work of social realism, it has a touch of science fiction.
Book review: ‘Nothing But the Bones’ is a compelling noir novel at a breakneck pace

By BRUCE DESILVA
Apr 29, 2024 7:05 am - Nelson “Nails” McKenna isn’t very bright, stumbles over his words and often says what he’s thinking without realizing it. We first meet him as a boy reading a superhero c...

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