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Summer reading offerings are delightful
Ah, summer reading. We all look forward to the opportunity to find the perfect book to take with us to the beach, mountains or foreign climes, one that will occupy our free time and take our imagination to some place far, far away.
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Beginners and fans will be well-served with Dylan story
At one point in "The Ballad of Bob Dylan," the author is asked to pitch a plot for a musical featuring the folk-rock star's songs.
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New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers List
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Fiction
FICTION
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Mystery is tight, captivating view of Rome
An accidental fall leads to a case that stumps detective Nic Costa and his fellow officers of Rome's Questura in David Hewson's latest novel, "The Fallen Angel."
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Writer's Notebook
Writer's Notebook
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'The Sandalwood Tree' blends history, fiction in compelling tale
If you like your love stories sweeping and wrapped in history, "The Sandalwood Tree" has it all.
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Hustvedt's novel explores sanity, infidelity, love
Mia Fredricksen, the poet narrator of "The Summer Without Men," has moved back to the town where she grew up after her husband, Boris, announces that he wants to put their 30-year marriage on "pause."
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Not much to learn about last season's Yankees bullpen
Forgive New York Yankees fans if they get nervous when one of the team's relievers takes the mound. Mariano Rivera, the 41-year-old, lights-out closer, appears to defy time with every cutter he throws for a strike. Fireballer Joba Chamberlain is young, naturally gifted and inconsistent. And the rest of the bullpen has been a mixed bag over the last couple of years.
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'Leaving van Gogh' offers a revealing portrait of doubt
Although he merely dabbled with paint and brush, Paul Gachet, a French physician, occupies a significant place in art history.
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Story of mother's long-term care is one of intricacies, indignities
Decades after screen star Bette Davis famously declared that "growing old is not for sissies," Estelle Gross expanded on the woes of the ailing aged with her lament that people live too long and die too slowly.
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New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers List
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Best sellers
FICTION
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People add dimension to pictorial history of Reynolda
The latest book in Arcadia Publishing's popular series of pictorial histories takes a look at one of the most popular destinations in Winston-Salem.
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Styron's youngest daughter pens revealing memoir
A decade after the publication of his last, lavishly acclaimed novel, "Sophie's Choice," William Styron wrote about his epic struggle with incapacitating depression.
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Appealing books help hone reading skills
Spring: The weather beckons to play, play, play; yet the kids seem to be tested, tested, tested.
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New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers List
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Jim Shepard has new collection of short stories
There is a type of man who populates Jim Shepard's latest collection of short stories. He is sensitive, educated, perceptive, empathic and deeply grateful to his wife or girlfriend for sex.
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Roosevelt takes football's side in 'The Big Scrum'
What's getting the Panama Canal built or making peace between Russia and Japan compared with rescuing football from damnation and dissolution? In the Age of Theodore Roosevelt, anything was possible.
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Doctor pulls no punches on likelihood of cure for cancer
Science can be a difficult subject for the uninitiated, which is most of us.
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Book deftly paints depth of emotion, sexual expression
Superbly written, wry yet compassionate, Meg Wolitzer's "The Uncoupling" is uncommonly good.
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Best sellers
FICTION
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Writer's Notebook
The Winston-Salem Writers will have its First Wednesday program from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Forsyth County Public Library, 660 W. Fifth St.
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Fire lookout writes ode to solitary life overlooking nature
Does this sound like fun?
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An insider's colorful account of city politics
In the fall of 1974, a few days after he was elected mayor of Providence, R.I., Buddy Cianci sipped beer with reporters and joked about the "Philistines" he had ousted from city hall.
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