There are few moments more satisfying than feeding family and friends with bread made from scratch. No mixes. No shortcuts. It is an ancient practice, enshrined in both the Old and New Testaments. So much more than a cookbook, Inside the... Read More

Trying to restore standards to the glut of memoirs devouring the book market, Neil Genzlinger, copy editor and frequent contributor to the New York Times recently wrote: “[I]t’s not a regurgitation of ordinariness or ordeal, not a... Read More

Reno’s Funmakers, a “biographical novel” by George Moon, gives praise to his family and especially to his grandfather. In his first novel, Mr. Moon tells a fictional version of his family’s experience during the Great Depression... Read More

Richard W. Paterson’s novel is a Vietnam War-era opus about love, war, music, family, and commitment to truth. "The Year the War Came Home" primarily narrates Max Carboni’s struggle as a young man with whether to heed the call of... Read More

"The New Southern-Latino Table", by cooking instructor and food writer Sandra A. Gutierrez, is both a wonderful cookbook and a fact-filled guide to the fusion of Southern and Latino cooking. Gutierrez grew up in the southern US and in... Read More

In "Masks of Demons" Yiannis Laouris has written an account of his transformation from a doctor, scientist, and entrepreneur on Cyprus to an active participant in the effort to establish peace between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots and... Read More

Although an enjoyable read, the novel, The View from God’s Front Porch, by J. J. Nason, is littered with semi-colons and obscured with sentences that run on nearly to the horizon. Nason’s memoir-like book follows the life of Tunk... Read More

At a time when politicians advocate de-funding National Public Radio and curtailing appropriations for the arts, it is difficult to recall that there was a time when the federal government actually paid writers to write books. From 1935... Read More