April 13, 2012
100 Years After Titanic: 9 Books That Take Us Back
From Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage to Walter Lord's A Night to Remember, we look back at the tragic events surrounding the Titanic on its centennial anniversary with these seven books.
From Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage to Walter Lord's A Night to Remember, we look back at the tragic events surrounding the Titanic on its centennial anniversary with these seven books.
Once I started the irresistible novel The Dressmaker, I simply could not pry myself from the couch until I was done. Kate Alcott seamlessly weaves little-known facts about the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic with not only a love triangle but, just for good measure, she throws in an early twentieth-century version of a “Devil Wears Prada” boss.
An Ominous, Sensual Debut: Jamie Quatro’s I Want to Show You More
Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami