Book: Oh so Common
‘One Day It’ll All Make Sense’
‘One Day It’ll All Make Sense’
By Common with Adam Bradley. Atria Books; 320 pgs., $25.
Culture: Podcasts you might be missing
‘Podularity’ & ‘The Faber Podcast’
I have a new best friend, and his name is George Miller. I suppose I should call him an imaginary best friend, as he will never know of my existence, but I sure am glad I stumbled upon his.
Book: Stuck in the past, and that’s a good thing
‘The Marriage Plot’ by Jeffrey Eugenides
‘The Marriage Plot’
By Jeffrey Eugenides. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 408 pgs., $26.
Book: A pocket full of ‘Grace’
‘Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace’
‘Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace’
By Aaron Cohen. 33 1/3/Continuum Books; 176 pgs., $12.95.
Book: Best-selling novelist lands in haunted house
Author Chris Bohjalian has achieved all the signs of a modern American literary success: an Oprah book (“Midwives”), multiple film adaptations of his work, his publisher’s b
Book: Bookworms meet for Writer’s Block Fest
This weekend’s Writer’s Block Festival in NuLu will not be a buffet of booths filled with authors hungrily hawking their work.
Talking with Ed McClanahan
LEO Weekly recently caught up with fabled Kentucky storyteller Ed McClanahan over lunch at Lynagh’s Pub in Lexington and over the phone while McClanahan vacationed off the coast of Geor
Captain Kentucky
Author Ed McClanahan’s Kandy-Kolored Counterculture Contribution
High Summer 1965, La Honda, California
Book: Jack Reacher’s creator comes to the library
Lee Child doesn’t mind it when his writing style is described as “off the cuff.” With his charming but direct British accent, he is forthright and open about how he plots his susp
