Ask Again, Yes: A Novel I could not put this book down. I’m wary of recommending something you might not like. I recently finished Liz Moore’s “Long Bright River,” one of today’s hot books. It’s about sisters, one’s a cop and one’s a drug addict. And to tell you the truth, I had a hard […]

“No Saints, No Saviors-My Years With The Allman Brothers Band” You sold your soul for rock and roll. Well, at least your life. For the last twenty years, we’ve been deluged with tales of college dropouts going to Silicon Valley to change the world and get rich. They used to go into rock and roll. […]

Olive, Again: A Novel What if you’re just not that important? A tear literally came to my eye as I finished this book. Which completes the story of Olive Kitteridge, the protagonist of Elizabeth Strout’s book of that name back in 2008. Yes, they made a mini-series of that book back on HBO five years […]

Hillbilly Elegy Anybody who’s a friend of Peter Thiel is not a friend of mine. Well, not exactly, but what bugged me about the press for this book is that they neglected to point out J.D. Vance’s entrenchment with right wingers, as in this book was seen as an insight into the poor white underbelly […]