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Fred Haefele discusses his connection with Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Colin Calloway describes Rez Life as “the best book yet on Indian country today.” Travel to Salt Lake City and the scandal of its Olympic bid, explored in Tarnished Rings. Ever wondered what “opposition researchers” do? Open Season will more than answer your questions. And for a comparison of America and New Zealand, read Freedom and Fairness.
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.
Writer Darrell Delamaide takes the GoodReads challenge to read a book a week in the New Year set in a different country.
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.
Sarah Vogelsong looks at Jack Kerouac's early novel The Sea Is My Brother
Today’s Snapshots feature short stories: two debut collections, each with stories that shouldn’t be missed, and one collection by a master of the form, Melissa Pritchard, with some new takes on the “Gothic themes of madness, tragic and unavoidable fate, scientific hubris.”
Today’s three Snapshots travel above ground, underground and into the complexities of a Pakistani-American boy’s struggle with questions of faith, culture and belonging.
