Beth Golay

Book Review: Life After Life

Beth Golay — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Jill McCorkle's Life After Life, set in fictional Fulton, N.C., is told through a chorus of characters that have a connection to the Pine Haven Retirement Community.

Book Review: Snapper

Beth Golay — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Snapper is a collection of stories by Brian Kimberling.

Like making new friends later in life, we learn about protagonist Nathan Lochmueller through a series of stories and back-stories.

Book Review: Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

Beth Golay — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

David Sedaris is known for his self-deprecating wit, obsessive behaviors and sardonic humor. His new book of essays, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, does not disappoint.

Book Review: Life After Life

Beth Golay — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

As we live our lives, we're presented with seemingly minute decisions to make every day. Each decision takes us on a specific path. Some prove to be wise. Others have us wishing for a mulligan.

Book Review: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

Beth Golay — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

The protagonist of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards is a writer who has lost every book he's ever written.

Book Review: A Tale For The Time Being

Beth Golay — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

In Ruth Ozeki's first two books, her protagonists were strong Japanese-American women, and on book tours, she was often asked if they were based on herself.

Book Review: In The Middle Of America

Beth Golay — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +0000

In the Middle of America: Printmaking & Print Exhibitions is a catalog created as a reference guide for four exhibits to be held this spring:

Book Review: Frances and Bernard

Beth Golay — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer was inspired by the friendship of Flannery O'Connor and the poet Robert Lowell.

Book Review: The End Of Space

Beth Golay — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Albert Goldbarth is the author of six collections of essays and more than 25 books of poetry. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Twice. And he lives in our backyard.

Book Review: Y

Beth Golay — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0000

In the preface of her novel Y, Marjorie Celona writes about that perfect letter. "The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over... Coupled with an L, let's make an adverb... a Greek letter (that) joined the Latin alphabet after the Romans conquered Greece in the first century--a double agent: consonant and vowel. No one used adverbs before then, and no one was happy."