DailyMe LiteratiDailyMe Digest RSS Literati'The Good Thief' is an irresistible journey through a pungently Dickensian world- September 16, 2008 "The Good Thief" by Hannah Tinti; Dial Press ($25)___Advance word on Hannah Tinti's first novel, "The Good Thief," has been the kind to inspire skepticism. A chorus of established writers _ Junot Diaz, Elizabeth Berg, Brock Clarke, to name...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091000007274/ 'To Catch a Thief' and find romance at the same time- September 16, 2008 "To Catch a Thief," by Christina Skye; HQN ($6.99)___"To Catch a Thief" is vintage Christina Skye. Which is good. And bad.Skye blends a character and setting from her older (and better) "Draycott Abbey: series, with a recurring Navy SEAL...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091000007262/ Tell-all recounts, in detail, the path to parenthood- September 16, 2008 Love stories, the believable ones anyway, don't unfold in the most likely settings.Matthew Miller's, in fact, takes place in some pretty unlikely ones: urologists' offices, fertility specialists, hospital waiting rooms.These are the places,...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091600011287/ Techno wizard also pens best-selling science fiction- September 15, 2008 SEATTLE _ If you saw Neal Stephenson on the street, you might think he's just another geeky Seattle guy with a particularly impressive goatee.He blends right into this town of musicians, computer scientists and creative types _ so well that you...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091100006876/ A Look at the Presidential Candidates, Kiddie Style- September 15, 2008 Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of HopeNikki Grimes offers a story on two levels: In the foreground, a boy named David, living with his mother in a "tenement," has seen Barack Obama on television and his mother tells him Obama's life story....http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091300003879/ The Sweet Smell of Sex-Cess- September 15, 2008 Taking a contraceptive pill messes with Mother Nature in more ways than one, according to a new study by a scientist at the University of Liverpool in England.In its effort to prevent pregnancy, the Pill alters a woman's sense of smell, which is...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091400004070/ A Dallas Orchestra and LBJ's Fateful Day- September 14, 2008 A haunted tenor voice will sing out in Dallas on Thursday. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra wanted a grand piece of music to commemorate Lyndon B. Johnson, born 100 years ago, and it may have gotten more than it bargained for: a 70-minute oratorio...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091400007415/ Author David Foster Wallace Dead in Apparent Suicide- September 14, 2008 David Foster Wallace, 46, a novelist, essayist, teacher and story writer whose effort to come to grips with the America of his time resulted in the huge and hugely successful novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday at his home in Claremont,...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091400007752/ The 19th Wife' spotlights polygamy- September 12, 2008 "The 19th Wife" by David Ebershoff; Random House ($26)___In America, apparently, it's just about as common to lose your religion as it is to find it. For every high-drama rebirth, someone else quietly sloughs off belief and joins the ranks...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091000007277/ Scottish author Welsh finds relief in spoof film- September 11, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The topic of Scottish author Irvine Welsh's latest novel -- pedophilia -- is so harrowing that he worked on a spoof documentary film about a darts player while writing the book just to lighten his mood.http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091100016555/ |