Lacey Galbraith
Content by Lacey Galbraith
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Cleopatra had her pearls, the British Empire its crown. Jewelry has long held a symbolic place in world affairs, and for Madeleine Albright, the all-important symbol is the brooch.
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Most Christmas novels suffer from an overabundance of sweetness or a glut of requisite miracle making.
Not Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel.
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Lesley Hauge’s debut dystopian novel Nomansland is made for a sequel—no, more like a series. There’s got to be more of Keller, the brave heroine of Nomansland.
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The most recent addition to Karen Kingsbury's Red Glove Series, Sarah's Song is the story of how one woman's faith can touch multiple lives.
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In the monumental, absorbing A New Literary History of America, editors Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors have assembled a fascinating collection of writings on a range of subject matters: eve
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Although Myron Horowitz is an orphan and the survivor of a horrible accident that left him permanently disfigured (he has no nose), Immortal Lycanthropes hasn’t even a hint o
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Luanne Rice's Silver Bells brings romance to the holidays.
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Quirky and full of small-town characters, A Redbird Christmas is pure Fannie Flagg.
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Classics re-imagined
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A MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of both an NEA grant and a Guggenheim fellowship, and the author of more than 10 works of fiction and nonfiction, Charles Johnson is more than a little prolific.
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Poet, novelist, essayist and contributor to NPR's All Things Considered, Andrei Codrescu is both prolific and celebrated.
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Objects of Our Affection by journalist Lisa Tracy is one woman’s personal “Antiques Roadshow”-like quest through three generations’ worth of bric-a-brac, photographs,
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For parents, the scariest part of Halloween night isn't the roving bands of pint - sized ghouls and goblins canvassing their neighborhood but their little one's earnest question, "Mom,
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In the world of college athletics, professional sports or even NASCAR racing, rivalries are a ubiquitous, even pervasive, part of the game.
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According to Jen Yates, author of the hilarious new collection Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong, “A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sa
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Fans of the author Kurt Vonnegut—who died in April 2007—are in for a treat with the publication of Look at the Birdie, a posthumous collection of 14 works of his short
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For author John Burnham Schwartz, it was the bittersweet sense of what might have been, that first sparked his imagination and spurred him to write his new novel, The Commoner.
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<b>It's a Southern thing: even death is a party</b> Southerners are known for many things gentle accents, salty food, devotion to football but it's hospitality that should be at the top
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<b>It's a Southern thing: life is a party</b> Southerners are known for many things gentle accents, salty food, devotion to football but it's hospitality that should be at the top of t
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George Plimpton's The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair: And Other Excursions and Observations is not unlike its late author: erudite in manner, endearing in tone, an elegant anomaly in a world so
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STEINBECK'S CAMELOT
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Just as celebrated a writer is John Edgar Wideman, who with the publication of his latest collection God's Gym shows why he is the first author ever to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice (for 19
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As the author of four previous works of travel - writing - most notably Blue Highways and River - Horse - William Least Heat - Moon believes that when it comes to trip - taking, "
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Will West knows how to blend in. He can run 1.2 miles in 3:47 minutes and scores off the charts in aptitude tests, but his teachers can barely remember his name.
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Fiction has always benefited from experimentation, and several recent short story collections show just how well a new generation of writers has taken to the challenge.
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Willful Creatures is Aimee Bender's third work of fiction, and unlike most any other writer working today, she follows Aristotle's adage: That which is probable and impossible is better t
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Yiyun Li lives in the United States, but she was raised in Beijing.
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In Music Through the Floor, Pushcart Prize winner Eric Puchner shows just how startling a first work can be.
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For more than a decade, The New Food Lover’s Companion by Sharon Tyler Herbst has been the definitive food reference book.
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Michael Konik's Ella in Europe: An American Dog's International Adventures is in many respects a love story.
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Long ago Jamaica Kincaid proved herself to be a writer of enormous talent with works such as Annie John, Lucy, My Brother and The Autobiography of My Mother.
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J.R. Daeschner knows more than a little something about participatory journalism.
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As the narrator in Paul Auster's <B>Auggie Wren's Christmas Story</B> remarks, "How could anyone propose to write an unsentimental Christmas story?" Auster though, does manage
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