In this segment of Behind the Books Don Snyder, author of Walking with Jack, tells us of his early (and we mean early) writing routine, the importance of capturing our live's moments -- "each moment a scene" -- and the process of writing "from stillness into the sounds of a growing family."(READ MORE)
On May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gunned down by two squads of state police while cruising through Louisiana in a stolen car. For a balanced look at the star-crossed lovers, pick up(READ MORE)
Thomas Edison received a whopping 1,093 patents, but they weren't all his ideas alone. Edison often took advantage of the less resourceful inventors, so here we pay homage to 5 little known inventors in history. (READ MORE)
In Oppenheimer, Ray Monk's new biography of the Father of the Atomic Bomb, Monk aims to show how the scientist's "philosophy and his ethical and spiritual concerns" are in fact "twin parts of the same soul." (READ MORE)
Eric Fischl is the author of Bad Boy, a memoir reflecting on his glory days atop the American art world in the 1970s and 1980s, detailing the politics and personalities that make up that supercharged, creative community. In this segment of Behind the Books, we ask Eric about his first foray into writing,...(READ MORE)
Colin Broderick, author of the new memoir That's That, is a first-hand witness of the infighting in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles, a time when bullets flew from the '60s to the '90s. Gladly sitting down to chat with us about his story Behind the Books, Colin tells us of his literary leanings.(READ MORE)
This week in history, on May 9, 1950, the guardians of Logic were bedridden and let one L. Ron Hubbard loose to make a mess of people's minds. He published Dianetics, a pseudo-sciency, self-help book that would form the founding principles of Scientology two years later. (READ MORE)
now out with her most recent memoir, Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders, Jennifer Finney Boylan waxes reflective on her bookish habits: rendering a story from the clutter of life, moving "from a life of invention to a life of truth," and writing "until you shake most...(READ MORE)
This week in history, science takes center stage. Truman is briefed on what's brewing behind the top-secret Manhattan Project in 1945, and - nine years later - Jonas Salk discovers a vaccine for Polio, a disease that ravaged much of the world until his vaccine trials proved successful. (READ MORE)
Annette Funicello passed away on Monday due to complications of multiple sclerosis. She is best known for being an actress in popular beach films of the 1960s, and later for her vocal recordings of popular tunes like "O Dio Mio" and "Train of Love."(READ MORE)
