Archive for March, 2008

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Fans of Zelda, Nancy Milford’s groundbreaking (and bestselling) biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tortured wife and muse, have been waiting impatiently since 1970 for Milford’s promised follow-up about poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). It’s finally here, and they will not be disappointed. Milford’s vivid narrative limns an electric personality with […]

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A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah’s Book Club)

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not […]

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Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah’s Book Club)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.” And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and […]

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