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.
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.”
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
