Posts tagged

"Mexico "

July 19, 2012

Middle-Aged Women Gone Wild? Trouble, a Novel by Kate Christensen

In Trouble, Kate Christensen delivers a meditation on complicated female friendships and romantic relationships, set amid the hedonism of Mexico City.

July 6, 2012

Pulp Noir Meets Modern-Day L.A.: Savages, by Don Winslow

A SoCal marijuana operation run by a botany major and Navy SEAL is running smoothly -- until a cartel moves up from Mexico and tries to take up some of their space. As quickly as the story begins, things get out of hand. And now a movie directed by Oliver Stone.

April 27, 2012

Oaxaca Journal: In Mexico, Oliver Sacks Looks at Ferns; Hilarity Ensues

Well, not exactly hilarity. You will never see a film adaptation of Oliver Sacks' Oaxaca Journal in your Netflix queue. But this quirky little book is a romance -- about nature, knowledge, and camaraderie.

December 27, 2011

Taylor Stevens: 5 Things You Wouldn’t Suspect About the Author of The Innocent

The author of The Informationist and The Innocent shares with Everyday eBook five surprising things you'd never guess about her.

December 1, 2011

The Enduring Wisdom of Born to Run: 7 Questions for Christopher McDougall

When one of the top sports-medicine doctors in the country told Chris McDougall his foot injury demanded that he quit running, McDougall instead got a cortisone shot and a second opinion. And then a third. Because as he aptly analogizes in his fascinating 2009 narrative Born to Run, running is fundamentally about love.