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BookNotes Review August 2023
Tom Lake Ann Patchett August Wilson: A Life Patti Hartigan Homicide Philippe Squarzoni Based on the book by David Simon Booker Longlist 2023 Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Nigerian) A Spell of Good Things (Canongate) Sebastian Barry (Irish) Old God’s Time (Faber & Faber) Sarah Bernstein (Canadian) Study for Obedience (Granta Books) Jonathan Escoffery (American) If I […]
The 17th annual Marfield Prize-winner on BookNotes
Jennifer Homans is a prize-winning author, historian, and dance critic for The New Yorker who has brought her personal and professional experience to the biography, Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century. It was a pleasure to speak with Jennifer via Zoom.
BookNotes Review July 2023
Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead Prom Mom Laura Lippman Thunderclap A memoir of art and life & sudden death Laura Cumming
On BookNotes, garden restoration as a metaphor for restoring familial bonds
Following on from her prize-winning novel in short stories, The Balcony, Jane Delury has just released her second book, Hedge, about a strong and creative woman at an emotional cross-roads in her life.
BookNotes Review June 2023
The Wind Knows My Name Isabel Allende Pageboy: A Memoir Elliot Page August Blue Deborah Levy Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces Patrick Mackie
A cellist traces her Holocaust history on BookNotes
Janet Horvath is the former associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra, and she is the daughter of two professional musicians who were Holocaust survivors. She recounts their story, and her link to it, in The Cello Still Sings — A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the […]
BookNotes Review May 2023
King: A Life Jonathan Eig Rogue Justice Stacy Abrams The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece Tom Hanks
BookNotes experiences Your Brain on Art
The science of neuroaesthetics offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross are co-authors of The New York Times Bestseller, Your Brain on Art: HOW THE ARTS TRANSFORM US. Here, Susan talks about the ways we can use arts creatively […]
BookNotes Review April 2023
Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld Symphony of Secrets Brendan Slocumb Chita Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
BookNotes reflects on Poetry Month
“Always be a poet, even in prose.” April is Poetry Month and my guest is educator, speaker, facilitator, poet, and writer, Judy Sorum Brown, whose work encompasses both poetry and prose.
