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Books & Literature

‘Inventing Niagara’ explores the despoiling of a Wonder of the World
By Mark Sommer
Updated: 05/07/08 9:07 AM

Ginger Strand’s “Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies” is an engrossing and revealing tale about one of the Wonders of the World.
Book Club: Jodi Picoult’s ‘Nineteen Minutes’ explores bullied schoolboy’s revenge
By Andrew Z. Galarneau
Updated: 05/08/08 6:17 PM

By now, the school shooting massacre has become an American archetype of disaster, a modern-day “tornado hits town” chestnut for the media.
Short Story Runner Up: 'The Mighty Niagara'
By Patricia Zander
Updated: 03/08/08 4:51 PM

Ten stories submitted to The Buffalo News' fiction contest earlier this year, all runners-up in the judging, will be posted online in our Books & Literature section — one story each Monday for the next 10 weeks, through the beginning of May.
May's Poetry Submissions

Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

Dispelling Myths
Cynthia Ozick honored for lifetime of work
By Hillel Italie - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

NEW YORK –Author Cynthia Ozick is sitting for what she calls a “midcareer” interview, notable not only because she has just won two lifetime achievement awards, but because only recently did she accept that she has a “career.”
The May Calendar

Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

A list of readings and workshops
Huffington takes off the gloves, takes on the neocons
By Gene Warner NEWS BOOK REVIEWER
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

It doesn’t take long for Arianna Huffington to warm up her poison pen, spewing her zingers, barbs and colorful one-liners, all aimed at the same convenient target:
Latest tell-all rips the scabs off the Watergate scandal
By Edward Cuddihy NEWS BOOK REVIEWER
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

When you see another first-person account, 35 years after the fact, by one of the minor characters in the Watergate scandal, the red flags of caution and skepticism start running up the pole.
Films provide grist for an education
By Christopher Schobert NEWS BOOK REVIEWER
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

If you are a true film obsessive — say, one who can recognize the voices of Brian DePalma, Werner Herzog, or even Jennifer Jason Leigh, sight unseen — you might be moved to tears, or at least, more movie-watching, by David Gilmour’s wry, wondrous memoir, “The Film Club.” If movies mean little to you? Well, I’m not sure how you live, but you’ll enjoy the text, too, so keenly observed and delightfully drawn is its story of a troubled father and a troubled son, and how cinema saves them.
A funny and insightful look at the realities of divorce
By Charity Vogel NEWS BOOK REVIEWER
Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

I didn’t expect to like this book. Heck, I didn’t expect to read this book.
New Books

Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little Brown & Co., $15.99, 359 pages). Ages 10 and up.
Best Sellers

Updated: 05/04/08 6:47 AM

FICTION
Kayla Perrin sets her latest thriller in Buffalo as a way of saying 'thanks'
By Charity Vogel
Updated: 05/03/08 10:59 AM

It’s not that she has anything against us. Quite the opposite. In fact, prolific novelist Kayla Perrin said she likes Buffalo and its people so much that she visits often from her home in Hamilton, Ont. Her book signings and readings here are usually packed.
Short Story Runner Up: 'A Shared Dream'
By Jennifer Hilburger
Updated: 04/28/08 10:01 AM

Ten stories submitted to The Buffalo News' fiction contest earlier this year, all runners-up in the judging, will be posted online in our Books & Literature section — one story each Monday for the next 10 weeks, through the beginning of May.
Memoir is a soundtrack for growing up female
By Margaret Sullivan NEWS BOOK REVIEWER
Updated: 04/27/08 7:04 AM

The Beatles had already broken up by the time my friends and I became true music fanatics in high school, but that didn’t stop us. They — along with the Rolling Stones, the Who and Bob Dylan — became our reason for living. We knew every lyric, learned to play their songs on our acoustic guitars, and, for a few absurd years, often spoke in what we believed were perfectly calibrated British accents.


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