December 31, 2012
6 Great Tales of Big Parties and (Not Always) Shiny Things
What better time than New Years Eve to reminisce about a few of our favorite books about partying people and decadence of the most vice-like kind?
What better time than New Years Eve to reminisce about a few of our favorite books about partying people and decadence of the most vice-like kind?
Memoirs that encompass an entire life can run the risk of rambling on and on, sprawling well beyond the meat of the story, the bits and pieces in which we as readers are truly interested. Not so with the late Norris Church Mailer’s A Ticket to the Circus.
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami