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A conversation with Alafair Burke about new novel 'The Wife'
A conversation with Alafair Burke about new novel 'The Wife'
By Mike Yawn
Alafair Burke graduated from Stanford Law School, was an assistant district attorney in Portland and currently teaches law at Hofstra Law School. Her father, James Lee Burke, is a New York Times ...
Science-fiction writer Ursula Le Guin's latest and last book is personal
Ursula K. Le Guin, the popular author who died Monday after a short illness, spent most of her 88 years writing fantasy and science fiction with a feminist bent. She considered writing essays difficult, ...
Books to transport young readers from Earth to the stars
Learning about the Earth and space can be weighty subjects for little ones. But here are some great books to give young readers a launching pad to explore more. 'Mae Among the Stars' by Roda Ahmed and ...
Houston book events: Jan. 28-Feb. 3
SUNDAY Tarif Youssef-Agha: Author will discuss and sign "The Chronicles of the Syrian Revolution: The Orphan Uprising the Entire World Betrayed," 3-5 p.m., River Oaks Bookstore, 3270 Westheimer; 713 ...
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Houston 'Green Beans' author and 'Bachelor' blogger wants to...
It was just an email. That's how it started, anyway: Lincee Ray fired off an email to six friends back in 2003, offering a few thoughts on the previous evening's episode of "The Bachelor." She filled the ...
Axman murders and spicy jazz heat up 'King Zeno'
With good reason, through flu epidemics and floods, New Orleans exerts a magnetic pull on the rest of this country. There appetites are celebrated, not curbed; indulging one's vices becomes a virtue; and ...
Ann M. Martin ponders how 'Baby-Sitters Club' characters...
Ann M. Martin knows what I want to ask her. It's the same question women my age have been asking her every chance they get for years: What is Kristy up to these days? Is Claudia still the trendiest girl ...
Will Self's 'Phone' deals with familiar characters' disconnect...
For many people, it's one of the biggest fears of the social media era: the horrifying prospect of being left out of the conversation. But one can become disconnected through means that have nothing to do ...
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Will Self's 'Phone' deals with familiar characters' disconnect...
For many people, it's one of the biggest fears of the social media era: the horrifying prospect of being left out of the conversation. But one can become disconnected through means that have nothing to do ...
'Mean': Gurba's account of surviving assault mixes horror and...
In slasher films, there's a famous convention in which the last woman alive faces down the killer - Jamie Lee Curtis in "Halloween," for example. Film theorists call her the "final girl." She lives in ...
Joe Holley pens book about Astros' historic season
About a month into the 2018 Major League Baseball season local fans will have an opportunity to relive the Houston Astros' 2017 World Series run with a new book by Chronicle columnist Joe Holley. Holley's ...
10 best reads of 2017
Our annual survey of the best books includes 10 we think are exceptionally rewarding. 'Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst' By Robert M. Sapolsky Penguin Press 799 pages, $23.79 If ...
Houston book events: Jan. 28-Feb. 3
SUNDAY Tarif Youssef-Agha: Author will discuss and sign "The Chronicles of the Syrian Revolution: The Orphan Uprising the Entire World Betrayed," 3-5 p.m., River Oaks Bookstore, 3270 Westheimer; 713 ...
Best-sellers: Jan. 28
Fiction 1. The Woman in the Window: By A.J. Finn. A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem town house. 2. The Wife Between Us: By Greer ...
In 'X-Men Grand Design,' comic-book artist Ed Piskor streamlines story arc
Ed Piskor was slapped with self-doubt. He'd recently seen "The Disaster Artist," and the film it was based on "The Room," which is commonly referred to as the worst film ever made. While digesting the ...
You go, girls! Authors encourage readers to be bold
Girl power is more than a hashtag or chant at a pep rally. It's about giving girls heartfelt messages, history lessons and information to encourage them to be all they can be. Books can help them do ...
Dan Rather starts the conversation about patriotism in new book
Dan Rather holds a note pad and a pen in the author photo for his new book "What Unites Us," a reminder of his roots as a young reporter in Houston in the 1950s. But the photo doesn't quite fit the new ...
Hammett's first gumshoe gets the deluxe treatment
Dashiell Hammett's early stories open like a posse of G-men kicking in a speakeasy door. Take 1923's "Bodies Piled Up," one of 28 stories and two novellas newly gathered in Vintage Crime's "The Big Book ...
