Word: authorly
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...Author of 15 books over the course of four decades, including collections of short stories and one travel book, Alice Adams '47 says she "always wanted to be a writer...
...always polite Judith Martin is a syndicated columnist and the author of Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown...
Summer is the time for books that don't tax or disturb or get debated about in the pages of Lingua Franca. It is the season for Tom Clancy and, although the best-selling author isn't offering up one of his 800-page tales of intrigue before Labor Day, there are plenty of big thrillers in stores and arriving shortly. Three of the most talked about, Brad Meltzer's The Tenth Justice (William Morrow; 389 pages; $23), Steve Alten's Meg (Doubleday; 275 pages; $22.95) and Don Winslow's The Death and Life of Bobby Z (Knopf; 259 pages...
...author is the doyenne of American home cooking, and the best parts of her book are little sideline essays about the byways of food, such as planking shad, making piccalilli, a section on fresh-fruit desserts (including a silken strawberry ice) and the ineffable glory of peaches (part of the rose family, she reports). Lukins writes with the unforced authority of her affection for the U.S., which she crisscrossed 50 times to gather the 600 recipes here. United Airlines has just gone American and is serving 36,000 dishes a day from U.S.A. Cookbook. As porch reading...
...imps of literary happenstance could not have done better than ?News of a Kidnapping? (Knopf; 291 pages; $25), writes TIME Critic R.Z. Sheppard. It brings together the world?s two best-known Colombians, symbolically locked in a struggle for their nation?s soul. The first is the book?s author, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medell?n drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths. These two men, who achieved international fame and fortune peddling their respective though vastly different...