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-- Let us take the long way home.2010., Random House Call No: Bio C147l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.
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By Ebert, Roger2011., Grand Central Pub. Call No: Bio E16l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The film critic best known for his "Chicago Sun-Times" reviews and his thirty years as co-host of "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" describes his life and career, including his recovery from alcoholism and the complications from thyroid cancer treatment.
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By Begley, Adam2014., Adult, Harper Call No: Bio U66b Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "One of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike (18 March 1932 <U+2013> 27 January 2009) -- a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. A portrait of the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities." The stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he remained until his death in 2009. Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life -- including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the "adulterous society" he was credited with exposing in the bestselling Couples. Begley probes Updike's best-loved works -- from Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit tetralogy -- and reveals a surprising and deeply complex character fraught with contradictions: a kind man with a vicious wit, a gregarious charmer who was ruthlessly competitive, a private person compelled to spill his secrets on the printed page. An admiring yet balanced look at this national treasure, a master whose writing continues to resonate like no one else's"--Provided by publisher.
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2023., 06:36:05, Tantor Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book is a product of these combined gluttonies. Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner's Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of books and food. The product of a lifetime of obsessively reading, eating, and every combination therein, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading is a charming, emotional memoir that only Garner could write. In it, he records the voices of great writers and the stories from his life that fill his mind as he moves through the sections of the day and of this book: breakfast, lunch, shopping, the occasional nap, drinking, and dinner. Through his lifelong infatuation with these twin joys, we meet the man behind the pages and the plates, and a portrait of Garner, eager and insatiable, emerges. He writes with tenderness and humor about his mayonnaise-laden childhood in West Virginia and Naples, Florida (and his father's famous peanut butter and pickle sandwich), his mind-opening marriage to a chef from a foodie family, and the words and dishes closest to his heart. This is a book to be savored, though it may just whet your appetite for more.
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