Buffalo News: Books

The Fall of the House of Walworth by Geoffrey O'Brien; Henry Holt, 337 pages ($30). We should have known something was up when the venerable and irreplaceable Library of America suddenly produced one of its elegant volumes devoted to true crime writing in America.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

David Goodwillie's unsettling new novel, “American Subversive,” is riveting, relevant and another sad reminder that “homegrown” is no longer a nurturing word.

Trostle Farm at Plum Run
(July 2, 1863, Gettysburg)
by Theresa Wyatt
The breastworks seemed
to whisper
go lie in this open field
and feel the earth
speak to you
allow the ground
to tell you its story
how stampedes and strife
were often daily
and how
the in between times
accommodated lovers
at the beginning of their thirst,
allow yourself
the curiosity of tall tales
and sad but true testimony
of how this battle
or that battle
changed the course
of history
and how,
as you see it,
lying there in an open field,

FICTION

One of these days, someone is going to write a book about a woman who finds out that her mysteriously pale boyfriend is a vampire, and instead of protecting him from vampire hunters or serving as a willing blood bank, she's going to drive a stake through his heart and go date a nice human.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

If you are blessed with a set of golden vocal cords and you make your living pontificating on the future of The Democracy, you're bound to come up with a whopper some day.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In 1934, at the age of 28, Henry Roth published his first novel, "Call It Sleep," a remarkable, heavily autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young boy in the Jewish tenements of New York's Lower East Side.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Clint:A Retrospective by Richard Schickel, introduction by Clint Eastwood; Sterling, 288 pages plus 20-minute profile on DVD($35). The 80th birthday of Clint Eastwood came and went with surprisingly little fanfare a month ago.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

We've had stories of the famous, the semi-famous, the infamous. We've had stories of the unknown who are perfectly happy remaining that way.

When it comes to packing for vacation, there are certain essentials that must not be forgotten: the beach umbrellas, the beach towels, the sun block, the dog dishes, the dog food, the dog toys, the dogs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share