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#1641: Terry Tempest Williams’ “Erosion: Essays of Undoing” | The Book Show
Terry Tempest Williams is renowned for her singular body of literature on the environment and our experiences of home. Her new book “Erosion: Essays...
#1640: Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original – poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, “On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” is a sweeping and shattering portrait of...
#1639: Sharon Olds’ “Arias”
Sharon Olds is renowned for poetry that examines marriage, motherhood, intimacy, and the human condition. She is the author of 13 books of poetry...
#1638: Gail Collins’ “When Everything Changed” and “America’s Women”
New York Times columnist Gail Collins has written a new book on a subject that is timelier than ever: women and aging in America....
#1637: Elizabeth Strout’s “Olive, Again”
Olive Kitteridge, the funny, wicked, remorseful and gruff woman who was the propelling force in Elizabeth Strout’s book of short stories “Olive Kitteridge” –...
#1636: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777”
Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, who wrote the best-selling “Liberation” trilogy about the American effort in Europe during the Second World War, has now...