Snapshots

Historian and bibliophile Brian Odom reviews a smorgasbord of four delights for the intellectually curious. It begins with Adam and Eve and a history of blame, then moves to Lucas Cranach, Benjamin Franklin and Reverend Whitefield, and Friedrich Nietzche — personalities likely never mentioned before in the same sentence. Enjoy.

Goodreads Challenges

Writer Darrell Delamaide takes the GoodReads challenge to read a book a week in the New Year set in a different country.

Snapshots

Today’s snapshots include two debut novels offering two different takes on the family, a mystery set in Utah replete with mountains, cougars and a missing child, and a review of Perlmann’s Silence.

Author Q&A: Randall Robinson

Jewell Robinson interviews the law professor and best-selling author of Makeda.

About Love: Q&A With Margot Livesey

A Q&A about love with the author of six novels, including the recent A Flight of Gemma Hardy.

About Love: Q&A With Molly Shapiro

A Q&A about love with the author of Point Click Love.

On The Road And Out To Sea

Sarah Vogelsong looks at Jack Kerouac's early novel The Sea Is My Brother