BOOKS I READ: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1992). John Grady Cole heads down to Mexico with his buddy Lacey Rawlins, escaping the disappointment of losing his homestead…
BOOKS I READ: The Promised Party by Jennifer Clement (2024). An epistolary memoir of the writer’s childhood in Mexico City and her subsequent move to New York City to attend college…
BOOKS I READ: Knife by Salman Rushdie (2024). Rushdie revisits the horror of the knife attack while on stage at the Chautauqua Institution that almost took his life, the subsequent…
BOOKS I READ: Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather (1912). Bartley Alexander, a renown bridge engineer, lives in Boston with his wife, Winifred, often traveling to oversee his various…
BOOKS I READ: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004). The novel is a long letter by Reverend John Ames to his young son. Written in diary form, he memorializes stories about his father…