Indianapolis Star: Books
- Erika D. Smith: Ads on school buses is quick fix to bigger problem
Saturday - 03/08/2014 - 10:35 PMIt's a Tuesday morning. The sun is coming up, and you have escorted your child to the school bus stop. As it does every weekday morning, the bus turns the corner and pulls to a stop.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Elizabeth Haynes' 'Into the Darkest Corner' is page-turning first novel
Saturday - 06/30/2012 - 11:31 AM"Into the Darkest Corner," by Elizabeth Haynes (Harper) Catherine Bailey believes Lee Brightman is the perfect guy. He's handsome, charismatic and attentive to her wants and desires. But as their relationship develops, Brightman begins to show signs of jealousy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local author appearances
Saturday - 06/02/2012 - 09:51 AMTUESDAY Marilyn Em: 6:30 p.m. Hamilton North Public Library, Cicero Branch, 209 W. Brinton St. Hear the author of "Amazing Spirit: A Tribute to Dad." Born into a rich mix of European and Native American heritage, Em shares what her modest and loving father taught her about making the most of life's lessons.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Book Review: Touch of reality in this female romp
Saturday - 05/19/2012 - 08:25 AMBethenny Frankel has worn many hats in her rise to success. The reality TV star and self-help author has also designed everything from sangria to shapewear . . . so why not novelist?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies
Saturday - 05/12/2012 - 08:20 AMNEW YORK -- Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood. "I like interesting people and kids are really interesting people," he explained to The Associated Press last fall.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Book Review: James Brown biography details his sound and fury
Saturday - 04/28/2012 - 08:10 AMOne night in 2006, the year that he would die on Christmas Day, James Brown played a show in Georgia. Not the Georgia where he was raised, but Tbilisi, Georgia, in the former Soviet Union, where the Godfather of Soul was bringing his primordially powerful music while still living up to one of his many nicknames -- the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Carmel native Steve Inskeep is NPR's morning voice
Saturday - 03/17/2012 - 06:35 AMNPR anchor Steve Inskeep grew up in Carmel, but his work now takes him all over the world.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local author signing: Matthew Tully
Saturday - 03/03/2012 - 05:25 AMFRIDAY Matthew Tully: 6 to 9 p.m., Bookmamas, 9 Johnson Ave. Book launch party for the author's "Searching for Hope: Life at a Failing School in the Heart of America." Call (317) 375-3715 or visit www.bookmamas.com.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local author appearances
Saturday - 01/14/2012 - 04:50 AMA.L. Waddington: 6:30 p.m., Brownsburg Public Library, 450 S. Jefferson St., Brownsburg. Young adult author Waddington will talk about her new novel, "Essence," the first in a series. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Book signings
Saturday - 12/10/2011 - 04:30 AMSATURDAY Angie Klink: 1 to 3 p.m., Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2323 Sagamore Parkway South, Lafayette. Author of "Divided Paths" signs copies of her book. Part of the Clinton Prairie School fundraising fair.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Erika D. Smith: Accepting racial pain is first step to building a better community
Sunday - 03/09/2014 - 08:47 PMI knew I was in trouble when I heard myself say the words: 'Sometimes black people are too quick to play the race card, and I just don't understand it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Author events
Saturday - 06/09/2012 - 09:52 AMTUESDAY Donald Davidson: 6:30 p.m. Irvington Branch Library, 5625 E. Washington St. All ages can be part of an hourlong question-and-answer session with Davidson, Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian and host of radio program "The Talk of Gasoline Alley." He is co-author of the "Autocourse Official History of the Indianapolis 500" and has contributed to countless other hardcover books on racing.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Author events
Saturday - 05/19/2012 - 08:25 AMTUESDAY Matthew Tully: 6 p.m. Indianapolis Central Library, 40 E. St. Clair St. Journalist Tully will discuss his series on education, which appeared in The Indianapolis Star and led to his book, "Searching for Hope: Life at a Failing School in the Heart of America." Book sales and signings will follow.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Taste of Tomorrow' a food odyssey to the future
Saturday - 05/19/2012 - 08:25 AMWhat will we be eating in 2035? That's the question reporter Josh Schonwald sets out to answer in "The Taste of Tomorrow" (Harper).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Readings, lectures and signings
Saturday - 04/28/2012 - 08:10 AMTODAY Deborah Lloyd: 1 p.m., Inner Path, 7673 Shelby St. Author of "Believe and it is True: A Story of Healing and Life Lessons" signs copies of her book. Call (317) 883-1100 or visit www.deblloyd healing.com.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local author appearances
Saturday - 04/07/2012 - 06:46 AMMONDAY John T. Shaw: 7 p.m., Cook Theater at Indiana Landmarks Center, 1201 Central Ave. Author of "Richard G. Lugar: Statesman of the Senate" will sign copies of his book.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Sociologist reveals the advantages of living alone
Saturday - 03/10/2012 - 05:30 AM"Going Solo" by Eric Klinenberg (The Penguin Press) Living in families, though traditional and almost universal on this evolving planet, is experiencing an unplanned but effective attack, according to a new book.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies
Saturday - 03/03/2012 - 05:25 AMJan Berenstain, who with co-wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears children's books, has died. She was 88.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Best-sellers
Saturday - 12/10/2011 - 04:30 AMBest-sellers FICTION 1. Kill Alex Cross, by James Patterson (Little, Brown). 2. 11/22/63, by Stephen King (Scribner). 3. V Is for Vengeance, by Sue Grafton (Putnam).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Beyond creepy: 'Badbugs' feast on body and soul
Saturday - 12/10/2011 - 04:30 AM"Bedbugs," by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books, $14.95) If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. That's the moral of the story in "Bedbugs," a disturbing new novel by Ben H.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Brian Deer bringing new sounds to Beta Cell Bash
Sunday - 03/09/2014 - 10:47 PMBrian Deer hasn't released a recording since 2007, and he's using a buddy system to wrap up a new project.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Book review: Oral histories help produce sympathetic view of LBJ
Saturday - 06/09/2012 - 09:52 AMHistorian Mark Updegrove gives several reasons beyond the disaster that was Vietnam for why President Lyndon B. Johnson is given short shrift despite "prodigious achievements which can't be ignored by history."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Writer Carlos Fuentes' work was the voice of Mexico
Saturday - 05/26/2012 - 08:56 AMWhat will become of Mexico? How can a country so powerful, so concerted, so modern, be so impotent, so chaotic, so backward? And how can Mexico, and all Latin America, take ownership of their futures?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local discussions, performances and more
Saturday - 05/12/2012 - 08:20 AMTUESDAY Marilyn Moore: 10 to 11:30 a.m. Hancock County Public Library, 900 W. McKenzie Road, Greenfield. Moore's biography, "Amazing Spirit: A Tribute to Dad," recalls her modest and loving father, Lee Em.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Local author appearances
Saturday - 05/05/2012 - 08:15 AMTODAY Jared Carter: 4 to 6 p.m., Flat 12 Bierwerks, 414 Dorman St. Book launch for "A Dance in the Street," the Indiana poet's fifth collection of poems. Visit www.the-growler.com.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local author book signings, discussions
Saturday - 03/17/2012 - 06:35 AMBook signings, discussions TODAY Dr. Shaul Magid: 10 a.m. to noon, Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, 600 W. 70th St. Magid, professor at Indiana University, will speak on "Re-thinking Contemporary Jewish Identity in Post-Ethnic America." His new book, "Jews and Judaism in Post-Ethnic America" offers perspectives on the challenges of being Jewish in America today.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Local author signings
Saturday - 03/10/2012 - 05:30 AMTUESDAY Nicole Krauss: 7:30 p.m., Butler University Atherton Union, 704 W. Hampton Drive. Author of bestseller "Great House" and finalist for the National Book Award speaks as part of the Visiting Writers Series.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Local author appearances
Saturday - 01/28/2012 - 05:00 AMTUESDAY Dr. Lian Xi: 7 to 9 p.m., Clowes Hall, 4600 Sunset Ave. Author of "Redeemed by Fire," a study of popular Christianity in modern China today, and a professor of history at Hanover College, Lian is the featured speaker for Butler University's "Global Christianity in the 21st Century" seminar.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Vonnegut bio reaches deeper into a difficult life
Saturday - 01/14/2012 - 04:50 AM"And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life," by Charles J. Shields (Henry Holt, $30) In his new biography of the popular writer, Charles J. Shields doesn't depict Kurt Vonnegut as a saint.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Author appearances
Saturday - 11/26/2011 - 04:20 AMFRIDAY Tony Perona: 9 to 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2540 Futura Parkway, Plainfield. Mystery author signs copies of "Saintly Remains" and "Angels Whisper" as part of Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library's holiday fundraiser.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share