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#1635: Sean Penn’s “Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn”
Sean Penn won Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances in “Mystic River” and “Milk.” He is also a novelist. His debut novel...
#1634: Alice Hoffman’s “The World That We Knew”
Alice Hoffman’s latest book is a bittersweet parable about the costs of survival and the behaviors that define humanity. “The World That We Knew”...
#1631: Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America”
For seven years, journalist and New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold reported and wrote the story of how fracking in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale forever...
#1630: Jacqueline Woodson’s “Red At The Bone”
Jacqueline Woodson is the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of “Another Brooklyn” and “Brown Girl Dreaming.” Her latest novel, “Red at...
#1629: Terry Tempest Williams “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”
Terry Tempest Williams is renowned for her singular body of literature on the environment and our experiences of home. Her new book “Erosion: Essays...
#1628: Edwidge Danticat’s “Everything Inside”
Edwidge Danticat’s new book “Everything Inside” is a collection of stories about community, family, and love. Set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to...