A Festival of Cookbooks in the City of Light
A Report from the 2013 Paris Cookbook Fair.
For a book fair devoted exclusively to cookbooks, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better venue than, say, the Louvre Museum.
And that was the case this past weekend when that the Paris Cookbook Fair took place in the Carrousel du Louvre, below the Pyramid.The fair brought in nearly 3,000 attendees to visit 102 booths of publishers, writers, and agents.
Raising Dad: Books For A New Kind Of Fatherhood
My father, like many who raised kids in the 1960s and '70s, would never have thought to reach for a book on parenting. No matter how engaged he was in our lives, he always deferred to "the expert" — our mom. These days, however, it seems more and more fathers are writing books about fatherhood, and this year the sheer number of them suggests a generational watershed.
The voices in these volumes are all over the map, as if men aren't quite comfortable yet in this genre. It seems to me, though, that these books can be broken down into four categories: the dad as coach; the hip and witty dad; the dad as participatory journalist; and the heavy hitters.
PW Best Books 2011: The Call by Yannick Murphy
Twenty years ago, a friend handed me a collection of short stories called Stories in Another Language by Yannick Murphy. Her voice was spare and taut, and her themes were largely family and death, as I recall. It was a slim book, but the stories resonated beyond the pages.
The Call (Harper Perennial), Yannick Murphy's newest novel, is also slim, spare, uniquely structured—and absolutely beautiful.
Salvage The Bones Takes Top Fiction Honors At The National Book Awards
In a celebratory National Book Awards on Wall Street last night, Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction award for Swerve, while, in a surprise turn in fiction, Jesmyn Ward won for Salvage the Bones.
Christ Stopped at Eboli
By: Carlo Levi
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 296 pp., $14.00
January 2006
Introduction by MARK ROTELLA
In a Surreal State
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
October 24, 2004
DREAM STATE: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife
By Diane Roberts
Free Press, $25, 368pp
Amore, with knife and fork
Chicago Sun-Times
August 29, 2004
The Food of Love
By Anthony Capella
Viking, $21.95
Eat Your Heart Out
The Washington Post
July 18, 2004
The Food of Love
By Anthony Capella
Viking, $21.95
Miss Understood
Village Voice (New York, NY)
May 9, 2000
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World
By Sarah Vowell
Simon & Schuster, $23
Crews-ing
Village Voice (New York, NY)
January 11, 2000
Getting Naked with Harry Crews
Edited by Eric Bledsoe
University Press of Florida, 365 pp., $24.95
Sinatraland
Village Voice (New York, NY)
March 16, 1999
Sinatraland
By Sam Kashner
Overlook Press, 192 pp., $22.95