Book: A comic darkly
Philip K. Dick gets the graphic treatment
Recent times have been good to Philip K. Dick. He has received more recognition and, somewhat as a result, been legitimized.
Book: Irvine Welsh's 'Crime'
How to handle a pedophile
Crime by Irvine Welsh. W.W. Norton; 352 pgs., $14.95.
Book: Palahniuk does himself one better in new book
The darker side
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk. Doubleday; 256 pages, $24.95.
Book: Spalding rolls out the Fest of Contemporary Writing
This one’s for readers and writers. Spalding University’s Festival of Contemporary Writing, which starts Saturday, May 23, will offer free readings for eight days.
Book: No Regrets serves up 101 things to do before you get too cynical
Shoulda, woulda, coulda
No Regrets: 101 Fabulous Things to Do Before You’re Too Old, Married, or Pregnant
By Sarah Ivens. Broadway Books; 268 pgs., $14.
Book: Susan Wittig Albert serves up cozy herbal mysteries
A fictional Shaker village and its modern re-creation have some uncomfortable commonalities in a new mystery by Susan Wittig Albert.
Book: Louisville author gets in with gamers
Lynn Tincher releases novel "Afterthoughts"
Telling stories, shaping them into marketable works and doing the networking (including online) to get them in front of readers: Those are the required steps for a new author.
Book: Forgotten Classics
Good ones you might have missed
The Moons of Jupiter
(By Alice Munro. First Published 1981.)
Book: Reports
A Matter of Justice: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
(By Charles Todd. Morrow; 330 pgs., $24.99)
