Julie Hale

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Issue: December, 2005
What will the folks at The New Yorker think of next? Read more »
A baby's book of verse

Issue: September, 2005
Sharon Creech, acclaimed author of numerous children's books including Ruby Holler and The Wanderer, has collaborated with Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz to produce a dist Read more »
A beloved poet returns

Issue: April, 2007
With A Worldly Country, revered writer John Ashbery offers his 26th book of verse. Read more »
A biography fit for a king

Issue: August, 2004
This summer, Elvis fans are celebrating a very special event: the 50th anniversary of the King's first recording. Read more »
A brilliant debut

Issue: April, 2007
Newcomer Matt Donovan offers a remarkable collection of poems in Vellum, his first book and the winner of the 2006 Katherine Bakeless Prize for Poetry. Read more »
A gift from the gods

Issue: December, 2003
A cunning literary creation from cover to cover, The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree of Greek Myth from the First Gods to the Founders of Rome isn't the hefty tome Read more »
A groundbreaker, reconsidered

Issue: December, 2006
Almost a full decade before the American Civil War, Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, helped generate the national debate over abolition. Read more »
A man and his terrier

Issue: July, 2005
In an effort to better understand the fixation, the fascination, the downright adoration that dogs and only dogs seem to prompt within us, humor writer Alfred Gingold offers Dog World and the Huma Read more »
A perennial favorite

Issue: June, 2003
Martel won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for this wonderfully original novel, which recounts the remarkable life of Pi Patel. Read more »
A perfect literary pairing

Issue: December, 2003
For a one-of-a-kind perspective on the life of a literary legend, pick up Eudora Welty's On William Faulkner, an appealing little collection of Welty's writings on the master of Southern story Read more »
A poet's take on poetry

Issue: April, 2006
Edward Hirsch began contributing his Poet's Choice column to The Washington Post Book World not long after 9/11, and the weekly feature immediately struck a chord with readers. Read more »
A trio of tempting titles for the holidays

Issue: November, 2002
Let's face it: nothing spoils the holiday season quite like shopping can. Getting the goods requires a tactical plan that would make MacArthur proud. Read more »
A trio of tempting titles for the holidays

Issue: November, 2002
Let's face it: nothing spoils the holiday season quite like shopping can. Getting the goods requires a tactical plan that would make MacArthur proud. Read more »
A trio of tempting titles for the holidays

Issue: November, 2002
Let's face it: nothing spoils the holiday season quite like shopping can. Getting the goods requires a tactical plan that would make MacArthur proud. Read more »
A writer's refuge

Issue: December, 2004
A must-have for any bibliophile, American Writers at Home, co-published by the Library of America and the Vendome Press, provides a peek into the private lives of 21 famous literary figures Read more »
Adventures of an archetypal hero

Issue: December, 2006
Ancient Rome's most illustrious poet, Publius Vergilius Maro (aka Virgil) lived from 70-19 B.C. Read more »
America's soulful soundtrack

Issue: December, 2001
It's a little bit like religion: country music inspires a fervor in its fans that gives their attachment to it a nearly divine dimension. As music lovers go, a more zealous lot cannot be found. Read more »
America's soulful soundtrack

Issue: December, 2001
It's a little bit like religion: country music inspires a fervor in its fans that gives their attachment to it a nearly divine dimension. As music lovers go, a more zealous lot cannot be found. Read more »
America's soulful soundtrack

Issue: December, 2001
It's a little bit like religion: country music inspires a fervor in its fans that gives their attachment to it a nearly divine dimension. As music lovers go, a more zealous lot cannot be found. Read more »
An isolated soul

Issue: April, 2006
The work of Franz Wright displays a different kind of craftsmanship. Read more »
And the award goes to . . .

Issue: March 2003
Amid the usual flurry of sequins, excitement and suspense, Hollywood celebrates itself again this month with the 75th annual Academy Awards. Read more »
And the award goes to . . .

Issue: March 2003
Amid the usual flurry of sequins, excitement and suspense, Hollywood celebrates itself again this month with the 75th annual Academy Awards. Read more »
And the award goes to . . .

Issue: March 2003
Amid the usual flurry of sequins, excitement and suspense, Hollywood celebrates itself again this month with the 75th annual Academy Awards. Read more »
At home in the family business

Issue: May, 2006
Roger Angell may be best known for his books on baseball, but his talents transcend sports reportage. Read more »
Austin unleashed

Issue: October, 2004
Kinky Friedman's psychedelic tour of the Texas capitalOn a sunny Saturday morning in Austin, Texas, I'm trying to get Kinky Friedman on the phone, a process that's proving as complicated as the plot o Read more »
Australian outlaw takes the stage

Issue: February, 2001
Bit by bit with his books, Australian author Peter Carey has stretched and broadened the narrative life of a country that seems to hum with the energy of its own myths. Read more »
Back to the woods

Issue: December, 2004
An artist unafraid to improvise at life, Henry David Thoreau was a man who dared to be an idealist. Read more »
Best bets for book clubs

Issue: August, 2001
The month of August offers several great choices for reading groups. BookPage's selections, all newly published in paperback, are listed below. Read more »
Best bets for book clubs

Issue: October, 2001
This month's new paperback releases include several excellent titles in fiction and nonfiction. We recommend the following selections as good choices for reading groups. Read more »
Best bets for book clubs

Issue: October, 2001
This month's new paperback releases include several excellent titles in fiction and nonfiction. We recommend the following selections as good choices for reading groups. Read more »
Books for the studious and the scholarly

Issue: December, 2002
Are you struggling to summon gift ideas for the intellectual in your life? If so, you can un-furrow your brow starting now. Read more »
Books for the studious and the scholarly

Issue: December, 2002
Are you struggling to summon gift ideas for the intellectual in your life? If so, you can un-furrow your brow starting now. Read more »
Books for the studious and the scholarly

Issue: December, 2002
Are you struggling to summon gift ideas for the intellectual in your life? If so, you can un-furrow your brow starting now. Read more »
Books for the studious and the scholarly

Issue: December, 2002
Are you struggling to summon gift ideas for the intellectual in your life? If so, you can un-furrow your brow starting now. Read more »
Breaking Clean

Issue: January, 2003
Montana native Blunt makes a strong debut with this memoir of life on a cattle ranch during the 1950s and '60s. Read more »
Classic tales, revisited

Issue: December, 2003
Some of the world's most beloved legends get a facelift with The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen, an authoritative new edition of the Danish author's work. Read more »
Cleaning house

Issue: May, 2006
Crackling with the author's edgy wit and wisdom, Caitlin Flanagan's To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife is a collection of essays examining the key trends, issues an Read more »
Cormac McCarthy's bleak vision of the end times

Issue: October, 2006
It's the ultimate pairing: Cormac McCarthy plus the apocalypse. Read more »
Cover artist

Issue: December, 2005
Chip Kidd occupies a unique niche in the literary world. For the past two decades he has produced book jackets at Alfred A. Read more »
D.H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider

Issue: December, 2005
D.H. Read more »
Digging deep

Issue: April, 2006
Best known for a pair of provocative memoirs, The Liar's Club and Cherry, Mary Karr is also an acclaimed poet. Read more »
Drawing the line

Issue: May, 2006
Independent woman versus proud parent which will it be? Read more »
Dry: A Memoir

Issue: May, 2004
In this much-anticipated follow-up to the best-selling memoir Running with Scissors, Burroughs tells the rest of his controversial story. Read more »
Elvis fans love him tender, love him true

Issue: August, 2002
Those hips, those lips, that baby face: of course, we're talking about Elvis. August 16 marks the 25th anniversary of his much-mythologized demise. Read more »
Eminent domains

Issue: December, 2005
There's no denying that Southern authors are uniquely bound to their home turf just think about the kind of writer William Faulkner might have become if he'd been born someplace besides Mississippi. Read more »
Equine inspiration

Issue: July 2006
Susan Richards owned two geldings and a mare when the SPCA asked her to take in an abused, emaciated racehorse named Lay Me Down. Read more »
Falling Through the Earth

Issue: March 2007
Named one of the 10 best books of 2006 by the New York Times, this powerful memoir marks the debut of a promising new author. Read more »
Family ceasefire: finding a way to make peace with your mother

Issue: May, 2006
Love, as they say, is a battlefield, and no one knows this better than Iris Krasnow. Read more »
Family instincts

Issue: September, 2005
If You Were My Baby: A Wildlife Lullaby by Fran Hodgkins gives little ones a charming look at the wonders of the wild and the joys of family. Read more »
Father's Day: Gifts for dear ol' Dad

Issue: June, 2002
When it comes to writing about history, it's difficult to imagine a harder-hitting pair of reporters than Mark Bowden and Stephen Ambrose, the dynamic duo behind Our Fin Read more »
Father's Day: Gifts for dear ol' Dad

Issue: June, 2002
While it's true that a good man is hard to find, most of us need look no further than father for a superior example of the male species. Read more »
First-class debut from a literary star

Issue: May, 2005
Renée Manfredi makes a first-class debut with this highly acclaimed work of literary fiction. Read more »
From the lens of Leibovitz

Issue: December, 2003
Bringing together her revelatory portraits of some of the biggest names in the music industry, American Music is a collection of Annie Leibovitz's greatest hits and the ultimate photo alb Read more »
Frosty fun

Issue: January, 2005
Capturing the thrills and chills of icy weather, Hello, Snow by Hope Vestergaard is a lively look at the perfect winter's day. Read more »
Gift books for every destination

Issue: March, 2001
The river, the rails and the road: three R's that symbolize the American inclination to roam. Read more »
Heartfelt look at a symbol of love

Issue: February, 2001
Publishers Weekly once described Gail Godwin as a mix of "mysticism and clear-headed practicality," a fusion of divergent forces that has proven a rich one for the author, whose no Read more »
His Excellency

Issue: December, 2005
Ellis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of the best-selling books Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Read more »
Hole in My Life

Issue: September 2004
Gantos is an award-winning children's author, but his compelling autobiography will appeal to readers of all ages. Read more »
Homeschooling for difficult dogs

Issue: July, 2005
If your pet, like many, displays a host of annoying habits, then it's time to teach that pesky pooch some new tricks. Read more »
Humanity through a lens

Issue: September, 2001
Photographers oftentimes needn't look far to find their subjects: the sidewalk, the playground, any place with faces will do a locale where the human condition becomes fair game for the camera. Read more »
Humanity through a lens

Issue: September, 2001
Photographers oftentimes needn't look far to find their subjects: the sidewalk, the playground, any place with faces will do a locale where the human condition becomes fair game for the camera. Read more »
Inside the canine mind

Issue: July 2006
When it comes to unraveling the mysteries of canine behavior, dog rehabilitator Cesar Millan seems to have a sixth sense. Read more »
It's only rock 'n' roll

Issue: December, 2003
It's only rock 'n' roll Revisit the mod, mad days of the British Invasion with According to the Rolling Stones, a comprehensive scrapbook of the band that's f Read more »
It's only rock Ã”n' roll

Issue: April, 2007
It's only rock Ã”n' rollJonathan Lethem's latest book rocks literally. Read more »
Journey by ice

Issue: January, 2005
Set in 1941, The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden has all the makings of a classic. Read more »
Keeping up with Ann Richards

Issue: August, 2003
The former Texas governor fights a crippling diseaseWhen Ann Richards fractured her hand in a fall nine years ago, she went to the doctor for a bone density test only to learn that she had osteo Read more »
Listen to the river

Issue: December, 2003
A remarkable homage to Earth's most ephemeral element, Water Music is a luminous collection of photographs by Marjorie Ryerson accompanied by essays, poems and songs from an international line Read more »
Living to Tell the Tale

Issue: October, 2004
Tracing his personal history through the 1950s, Marquez applies the same skill and lyricism he demonstrates in his fiction to the genre of autobiography. Read more »
Making learning fun

Issue: December, 2004
Holding a kid's attention when you're trying to teach them something is all a matter of presentation, and the publishers of The World Almanac for Kids 2005 have the technique down cold. Read more »
Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Issue: December, 2002
Famous for her personal indulgences, as well as her vanity, France's controversial queen gets a break in Fraser's best-selling biography. Read more »
Mark Twain: A Life

Issue: December, 2005
Mark Twain: A Life is Ron Powers' exhaustive portrait of Samuel Langhorne Clemens' rise from Missouri miscreant to American icon. Read more »
McCarthy returns with another classic

Issue: August, 2005
Bringing a seven-year silence to an end, Cormac McCarthy has finally returned with a contemporary wild West tale that is his most accessible book to date. Read more »
Mistress of American letters

Issue: December, 2004
Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston is a one-of-a-kind retrospective of a remarkable author. Read more »
Mixing cocktails with the literati

Issue: December, 2006
Once upon a time, drinking seemed like an author's duty, an indulgence that defined the literary life. Read more »
New Vintage paperback series marks 50 years in the book business

Issue: February, 2004
Here's an interesting bit of literary trivia: trade paperback books those appealing, affordable little volumes that bibliophiles just love to collect first made their way onto the market in 195 Read more »
Not your average pet

Issue: July 2006
Naturalist and author Sy Montgomery leads a quiet life in rural New Hampshire with her husband until the day they adopt Christopher the pig. Read more »
Origins of a genius

Issue: April, 2006
Literature lovers will be in raptures over Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), one of American's most beloved authors. Read more »
Past and present

Issue: September, 2002
We invite you, dear readers, to peruse the pages of The Crimson Petal and the White, a deliciously Dickensian jaunt through Victorian London that smacks of the city's seedier quart Read more »
Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, 1914-1949

Issue: December, 2005
Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, 1914-1949 is a response by O'Brian's own stepson, Nikolai Tolstoy, to an earlier biography by Dean King which depicted the Read more »
Picture perfect

Issue: May, 2006
Given her youthful appearance and complete lack of attitude, it's difficult to believe that Sarah Dessen has been publishing books for a decade. Dessen, who is 35, started early. Read more »
Picture-perfect gifts: new photography books for the season

Issue: November, 2003
Because the aim of most photographers is to renew a viewer's sense of wonder, they tend to render the world in ways that challenge the eye, unsettle the mind and stir the spirit. Read more »
Picture-perfect gifts: new photography books for the season

Issue: November, 2003
Because the aim of most photographers is to renew a viewer's sense of wonder, they tend to render the world in ways that challenge the eye, unsettle the mind and stir the spirit. Read more »
Picture-perfect gifts: new photography books for the season

Issue: November, 2003
Because the aim of most photographers is to renew a viewer's sense of wonder, they tend to render the world in ways that challenge the eye, unsettle the mind and stir the spirit. Read more »
Put these treasures under the tree and on the coffee table

Issue: December, 2002
Owning an impressive photography book is almost like having a museum in your own home: comprehensive and colossal, hard on the arm, but easy on the eye, these books offer more visual riches per sq Read more »
Put these treasures under the tree and on the coffee table

Issue: December, 2002
Owning an impressive photography book is almost like having a museum in your own home: comprehensive and colossal, hard on the arm, but easy on the eye, these books offer more visual riches per sq Read more »
Put these treasures under the tree and on the coffee table

Issue: December, 2002
Owning an impressive photography book is almost like having a museum in your own home: comprehensive and colossal, hard on the arm, but easy on the eye, these books offer more visual riches per sq Read more »
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Issue: January, 2004
This poignant memoir from Nafisi, a professor of literature who teaches at Johns Hopkins University, is sure to resonate with readers. Read more »
Remembering women who made their mark

Issue: March, 2004
March marks the 17th celebration of National Women's History Month, a time of commemoration officially designated by Congress in 1987. Read more »
Remembering women who made their mark

Issue: March, 2004
March marks the 17th celebration of National Women's History Month, a time of commemoration officially designated by Congress in 1987. Read more »
Remembering women who made their mark

Issue: March, 2004
March marks the 17th celebration of National Women's History Month, a time of commemoration officially designated by Congress in 1987. Read more »
Review

Issue: February, 2001
Gifts for Black History MonthRevisiting an era that rent the nation, King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. is the perfect way for readers to commemorate Black History Month. Read more »
Review

Issue: February, 2001
Gifts for Black History MonthRevisiting an era that rent the nation, King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. is the perfect way for read Read more »
Review

Issue: February, 2001
s for Black History MonthRevisiting an era that rent the nation, King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. is the perfect way for readers to Read more »
Review

Issue: March, 2001
ift books for every destinationThe river, the rails and the road: three R's that symbolize the American inclination to roam. Read more »
Review

Issue: March, 2001
Gift books for every destinationThe river, the rails and the road: three R's that symbolize the American inclination to roam. Read more »
Review

Issue: April, 2001
One of the most telling parts of Larry Brown's new book Billy Ray's Farm comes in an essay called Goat Songs, when the author confuses a fictional story by William Faulkner with a true incide Read more »
Review

Issue: April, 2001
poetic realms of James Merrill Knopf has begun republishing the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Merrill, widely considered one of the leading American poets of the 20th century. Read more »
Review

Issue: April, 2001
ID VIDEOSQuiet time musicDoes listening to Mozart really increase one's IQ? Read more »
Review

Issue: May, 2001
Books a mother can loveThere's no better way to celebrate Mother's Day than with a gift book that immortalizes the maternal role. Read more »
Review

Issue: May, 2001
Books a mother can love There's no better way to celebrate Mother's Day than with a gift book that immortalizes the maternal role. Read more »
Review

Issue: May, 2001
ooks a mother can loveThere's no better way to celebrate Mother's Day than with a gift book that immortalizes the maternal role. Joyce Ostin's, a volume of radiant photographs, does just that. Read more »
Review

Issue: May, 2001
s a mother can loveThere's no better way to celebrate Mother's Day than with a gift book that immortalizes the maternal role. Read more »
Review

Issue: July, 2001
have been tortured by some of the fanciest ear-benders in the world, including George Bernard Shaw, reporter Joseph Mitchell wrote in 1938, "and I have long since lost my ability to detect insanity. Read more »
Review

Issue: July, 2001
ew Yorker wit and wisdom"Everybody talks of The New Yorker's art, that is its illustrations, and it has just been described as the best magazine in the world for a person who can not read," H Read more »
Review

Issue: July, 2001
ew Yorker wit and wisdom"Everybody talks of The New Yorker's art, that is its illustrations, and it has just been described as the best magazine in the world for a person who can not read," H Read more »
Review

Issue: July, 2001
ew Yorker wit and wisdom"Everybody talks of The New Yorker's art, that is its illustrations, and it has just been described as the best magazine in the world for a person who can not read," H Read more »
Review

Issue: July, 2001
Yorker wit and wisdom"Everybody talks of The New Yorker's art, that is its illustrations, and it has just been described as the best magazine in the world for a person who can not read," Haro Read more »
Review

Issue: July, 2001
py puppets and fine printsIf you're worried that the arts are succumbing to technology in this increasingly virtual age, our July gift books celebrations of timeless craft traditions that have endur Read more »
Review

Issue: July, 2001
loppy puppets and fine printsIf you're worried that the arts are succumbing to technology in this increasingly virtual age, our July gift books celebrations of timeless craft traditions that have en Read more »
Ridin' herd with the cowboys

Issue: October, 2002
Here's the news, buckaroos: Those rootin'-tootin', pistol-packin' papas (and mamas) who made the old West wild are ridin' herd again. Read more »
Sendak’s poetic endnote

Issue:
There’s more wildness in store for fans of Maurice Sendak. Before his death in May 2012, the master storyteller completed one last book, a magical tribute to his late brother, Jack, and his longtime partner, Eugene Glynn, that, with its questing hero, surreal plotline and fluid imagery, neatly encapsulates the work of his 60-year career. Read more »
September paperback releases offer good choices for reading groups

Issue: September, 2002
America's favorite Southern author returns with a delightfully down-home look at the life of his ornery grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, a tough-as-nails moonshiner and roofer who along with his equally Read more »
Sibling revelry

Issue: September, 2005
Sarah Sullivan's Dear Baby: Letters from Your Big Brother offers a boy's-eye view of life with a new sibling. Read more »
Smashed

Issue: February, 2006
Zailckas' much-admired autobiography is an electrifying account of her experiences as an alcoholic. Read more »
Stepping out

Issue: January, 2006
A word of advice to other interviewers: if you're going to chat with Louis Sachar anytime soon, you probably shouldn't start the conversation with a question about Holes. Read more »
Teacher Man

Issue: November 2006
McCourt adds to his string of memoirs with a fascinating book about his years as a high school English teacher in New York City. Read more »
The best from Britain

Issue: April, 2007
James Fenton has long been one of England's most celebrated poets. His work prickly, spiny, short on sentiment features a bleak realism that's balanced by a rapscallion sort of humor. Read more »
The best in holiday humor

Issue: December, 2003
A collection of seasonal miscellanea from America's wittiest weekly, Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art from the Editors of The New Yorker is a timeless treasury of Read more »
The best medicine

Issue: July 2006
Dogs are creatures Patti Lawson equates with men until the day she meets Sadie at PetSmart. Read more »
The blues all over again

Issue: December, 2003
A salty little music sampler, Squeeze My Lemon: A Collection of Classic Blues Lyrics is a compilation of choice outtakes from some of the most soulful songs ever captured on wax. Read more »
The Bookseller of Kabul

Issue: October, 2004
Seierstad, a 31-year-old Norwegian journalist, offers a one-of-a-kind look at Afghani culture in this compelling account of the three months she spent with a Kabul bookseller named Sultan Khan. Read more »
The career of an aviation legend

Issue: June, 2002
intrepid, enigmatic Charles Lindbergh would have been 100 this year. Read more »
The dog wins, hands-down

Issue: July, 2005
Dog devotees are certain to appreciate the strange-but-true episodes collected in What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner by Emily Yoffe. Read more »
The healing power of poetry

Issue: December, 2005
Often considered the most impracticable of art forms, poetry has been infused with a new purpose thanks to popular author and radio personality Garrison Keillor. Read more »
The life of a legend

Issue: September, 2002
Author of Zelda, the best-selling biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, Milford delivers a fascinating account of the life of Edna St. Read more »
The magazine America grew up with

Issue: December, 2004
It's a cultural institution, a reflection of our national character, a testament to our affection for the absurd. Read more »
The Most Famous Man in America

Issue: June, 2007
In this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, Applegate takes a fascinating look at the life of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, brother of the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read more »
The oldest art

Issue: December, 2003
A bewitching new book offers lessons in love"There was a time when I didn't know where my next husband was coming from," Mae West once said. Read more »
The parental pressure-cooker

Issue: May, 2006
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor has appeared on Comedy Central and Evening at the Improv, and her sharp wit takes center stage in Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay and Other Things I Had to Learn as Read more »
The splendor of the seasons

Issue: January, 2005
Young readers will learn to appreciate nature's diversity with Now It Is Winter by Eileen Spinelli. Read more »
The world made new

Issue: April 2008
That Little Something, the 18th collection from U.S. Read more »
Theater playset for everyone's favorite pig

Issue: December, 2004
The spunky star of the best-selling books Olivia and Olivia Saves the Circus is set to jetée her way into the hearts of theater fans old and young. Read more »
Through the Children's Gate

Issue: November, 2007
Through the Children's Gate Gopnik, author of the best-selling nonfiction book Paris to the Moon (2000), returns with a fresh collection of essays, all relate Read more »
Timeless literary treasures

Issue: December, 2001
Nothing inspires fear in the hearts of readers quite the way poetry can. The hoary literary category is something most of us attend to only in school. Read more »
Timeless literary treasures

Issue: December, 2001
Nothing inspires fear in the hearts of readers quite the way poetry can. The hoary literary category is something most of us attend to only in school. Read more »
Timeless literary treasures

Issue: December, 2001
Nothing inspires fear in the hearts of readers quite the way poetry can. The hoary literary category is something most of us attend to only in school. Read more »
Toe-tapping country collection

Issue: July 2006
The perfect primer for young music lovers, Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country and Western Music is certain to inspire a new generation of listeners. Read more »
Tributes to a country music legend

Issue: June, 2004
Johnny Cash was a man who seemed destined for immortality. Read more »
Tributes to a country music legend

Issue: June, 2004
Johnny Cash was a man who seemed destined for immortality. Read more »
Tributes to a country music legend

Issue: June, 2004
Johnny Cash was a man who seemed destined for immortality. Read more »
Vintage collection

Issue: December, 2006
In 1906, in an effort to make attractive, inexpensive editions of literary titles available to more readers, London-based publisher Joseph Malaby Dent established the Everyman's Library Contemporary Read more »
Vintage collection

Issue: December, 2006
The new Everyman's Library collection of Alice Munro's work, Carried Away: A Selection of Stories, features 17 pieces that give readers a fascinating overview of her development and range. Read more »
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

Issue: December, 2005
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, by Julia Briggs, focuses on the intellectual struggles and triumphs of a literary genius. Read more »
What love's got to do with it

Issue: May, 2002
What love's got to do with itYou might fight like cats and dogs, but where would you be without dear old mom? Without her attention and affection? And endless advice? Read more »
What love's got to do with it

Issue: May, 2002
What love's got to do with itYou might fight like cats and dogs, but where would you be without dear old mom? Without her attention and affection? And endless advice? Read more »
What love's got to do with it

Issue: May, 2002
What love's got to do with itYou might fight like cats and dogs, but where would you be without dear old mom? Without her attention and affection? And endless advice? Read more »
Wild things: stunning gifts from the natural world

Issue: December 2000
Award-winning nature photographer Art Wolfe spent three years capturing the images in The Living Wild, a splendid volume of pictures that pays tribute to the natural world Read more »
Will in the World

Issue: October, 2005
Nominated for the National Book Award, this bio of the Bard was a surprise bestseller and a hit with critics. Read more »

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Bio:

A former Associate Editor at BookPage, Julie Hale now does her reading in North Carolina.

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