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Top Five: Summer Debut Novels
Jun 25, 2012
Summer can be a great time for new experiences, for trying things you've never done before. And that applies to reading as well--so here are five novels by new writers worth taking a chance on....
Be Sure to Accept Anne Cherian's Invitation
Jun 19, 2012
When Vikram, Lali, Jay, and Frances met at UCLA more than twenty years ago, they'd all come to America from different parts of India to make a new life for themselves. Now Vic's oldest son...
Remembering Ray Bradbury
Jun 11, 2012
Ray Bradbury was probably the most widely read science fiction writer in the United States. If you were born after 1953, when Fahrenheit 451 was first published, there's a good chance you read it in...
Robert McCammon's Early American James Bond
Jun 4, 2012
Matthew Corbett is a professional "problem solver" in colonial Manhattan. He's not quite a private investigator, because the cases he gets himself involved in tend to be bigger, and more bizarre, than simple murders--and The...
Touring the Solar System with Kim Stanley Robinson
May 29, 2012
"Take an asteroid at least thirty kilometers on its long axis," Kim Stanley Robinson suggests early on in 2312. "Any type will do--solid rock, rock and ice, metallic, even ice balls, although each presents different...
Alyson Hagy's Winning Boleto
May 22, 2012
William Testerman is 23 years old, living on his family's ranch in Wyoming after a job at a stable in Texas that ended on a bad note. "His father thought he was too much of...
Toni Morrison Brings Us Home
May 15, 2012
In late April, the White House announced this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the United States government can bestow upon civilians. The 13 men and women recognized by President...
Remembering Maurice Sendak
May 9, 2012
The world feels a little less wild today with the sad news that one of the greatest storytellers of our time has passed. Character Approved children's author Maurice Sendak died today in Connecticut at age...
Mother's Day Gift Ideas: Writing
May 8, 2012
A Character Approved book can make a perfect Mother's Day gift, but you probably wouldn't feel comfortable buying your mom--or any other special mom in your life--a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, right? (Besides,...
What Makes a Bestseller Most?
May 3, 2012
James W. Hall teaches an English literature class at Florida International University, the likes of which you won't find at many other colleges. Each semester, he and his students read through a syllabus that's established...
A Tribeca Film Festival Wish List
Apr 27, 2012
At most film festivals, you can get the best experience for your time and money by concentrating on the movies you aren't likely to see on the big screen any other way--after all, the obvious...
Mary Robinette Kowal's Spellbinding Glamour in Glass
Apr 26, 2012
When Mary Robinette Kowal published her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, in 2010, her fellow science fiction and fantasy writers recognized it as one of the year's best, placing it on the shortlist...
Celebrating the Edgar Rice Burroughs Centennial
Apr 18, 2012
After a long period of financial struggling, with several failed business ventures behind him, Edgar Rice Burroughs decided to try his hand at pulp fiction writing, and 1912 was the year his first two novels...
Regina O'Melveny's Book of Madness and Cures
Apr 11, 2012
As a young girl, Gabriella Mondini grew up learning by the side of her physician father--a rare experience for a woman in late 16th-century Europe. As The Book of Madness and Cures opens, it has...
Kevin Young & the Storying of American Culture
Apr 4, 2012
Kevin Young is one of the leading American poets of the early 21st century, drawing inspiration from the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (To Repel Ghosts), the imagery of film noir (Black Maria), and the rebel...
Jonah Lehrer Unlocks the Creative Mind
Mar 30, 2012
What does Bob Dylan have in common with Don Lee, a computer programmer who found a successful second career behind the bar of one of New York's hippest watering holes? They're both cited as case...
Spring Break: Travel as a Way of Finding Yourself
Mar 20, 2012
Spring break getaways aren't always about indulging our hedonistic side. Sometimes, we want to take some time off from our ordinary lives and recharge ourselves emotionally or spiritually. Two new Character Approved memoirs show us...
The Enchantments of Kathryn Harrison's Russia
Mar 14, 2012
We may think we know the story of Rasputin, the "Mad Monk" who manipulated his way into a role as a spiritual advisor to the wife of Russia's last tsar until he was assassinated by...
Women's History Month: If You Love Julia Child, Thank Judith Jones
Mar 7, 2012
As we celebrate Women's History Month, I've chosen to honor someone who had a hand in shaping how we eat at home today. Julia Child is rightly known for changing how America cooked and thought...
Women's History Month: The Family Drama of Ellen Ullman's By Blood
Mar 7, 2012
Starting in the 1970s, Ellen Ullman was one of the first women to make a living as a computer programmer. She first wrote about those experiences in the 1997 memoir Close to the Machine, then...
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