Lunch Lit… Where Tigers are at Home Written by Jean-Marie Blas de Robles; Translated by Mike Mitchell Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil. When Eleazard begins editing a strange, […]
Today’s excerpt features a tale of two women . . . racing around the globe. On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from […]
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Today we give you and excerpt of the The Fannie Farmer Cookbook Anniversary: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of America’s Great Classic cookbook. It just went up on Scribd. Fannie Farmer is a staple in my kitchen when it comes to family, wholesome cooking. It was originally published in 1896. Now that is an American classic. By […]
True… a novel about deceptivness. Today for lunch read an excerpt from the newly translated novel True by Riikka Pulkkinen. From a new international literary voice comes a novel about the deceptiveness of memory, and the mercy and love that can come from a lie. Pulkkinen is a young literary sensation in Finland and […]
