This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (Harper Collins, 320 pages, $28.99, 320 pages) “I was always going to be a writer. I’ve known this for as long as I’ve known anything,” Ann Patchett declares in her new collection of personal essays, and she’s got...
What happens when a young chick-lit reader falls in love with the ultimate boy book? My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier has one of the worst spoiler titles in all of juvenile fiction, which may explain why I let it sit so long,...
My round-up of summer paperbacks for today’s Star Tribune. “Vengeance,” by Benjamin Black (Picador, $16) When business titan Victor Delahaye shoots himself during a sailing excursion off the coast of Ireland’s County Cork, the obvious suspect pitches the pistol...
Devotees of Walter the Farting Dog, a broad fan base ranging from the current White House Chief of Staff (who is said to keep a copy in his office) to my three little boys, will be relieved to learn their favorite pooch still hasn’t run out of gas. Though the fifth...
Those folks who favor a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage are half right when they say the most traditional union in the history of the human family is the marriage of one man and one woman. They’re just off by the number of wives. “Actually, the...
Those folks who favor a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage are half right when they say the most traditional union in the history of the human family is the marriage of one man and one woman. They’re just off by the number of wives. “Actually, the...
