Monthly Archives: November 2021

The brilliant Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief and the wonderful and memorable The Library Book, here reprises some of her profiles originally printed in The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Outside. The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary … Continue reading →

Well-written weirdness. It is 1969 in Cornwall, in southwest England, always an inspired choice for a setting. Forty-something Dick Young and Magnus Lane have been friends since their university days. Dick worked for many years in publishing, with which he … Continue reading →

Carol Leonnig is a consummate journalist, and her clean, clear-headed, and balanced writing make Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service compelling reading. The Secret Service was formed in 1865, but Leonnig’s reporting is of the years from Kennedy … Continue reading →

The Hunt for Red October Years ago I read nine or ten of Tom Clancy’s first books. I kept my two favorites, The Hunt for Red October (#3 in the Jack Ryan universe but the first one written) and The Cardinal of the … Continue reading →

If you need to step away from heavy reading, a foray into Phyllis Whitneyland will do the trick. Jennifer Blake’s three-year-old daughter Debbie was kidnapped when Jennifer left her alone for a few minutes in a Guilford CT super-market carriage. … Continue reading →

good books good company favorite author Robert Dugoni’s newest book is marvelous. The world played chess while I played checkers. Robert Dugoni is the best selling author of three series: the long-running Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite stories, the attorney … Continue reading →