Alice Munro, who lives in Canada, is one of the best-known short story writers of our time. She has won many Canadian and English honors, the U.S. National Book Critics Award…
Toni Morrison is among the most celebrated novelists on the American scene. She has written 10 of them. She has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize…
Hard Measures, written by Puerto Rican-born Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., is a fascinating book about his 31 years of service in the CIA. His mission was to oversee the running…
From January 2006, author Daniel Wolff and film producer Jonathan Demme visited a poor, predominantly African-American area of New Orleans every six months or so to record its progress in…
Cheryl Strayed actually walked the Pacific Crest Trail, a walk of some 1,100 miles virtually from the Mexican border to Washington State – alone. She walked away from a marriage…
Loet Velmans was reluctant to write Long Way Back to the River Kwai; his memories of being a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II were so painful to…
Gore Vidal once served on a freighter based in the Aleutian Islands where the weather was so bad the sailors often had to rely on maps or memorize points or…
WILLIAMSTOWN – Writer Daniel Wolff recently gave a talk about the making of the film I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad and the Beautiful, which, over a period of five years,…
When the Khmer Rouge overran Cambodia in the early 1970s, everyone was driven out of Phnom Penh, its capital, to work as laborers in the countryside, forced to find their…
I have never read a book of this kind – a fictionalized version of a very real period in a person’s life using actual letters written by and to her…