Unable to afford the tuition at her pricey Ivy League university, Appalachia native Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman embarks upon a series of money-making ventures, including a job pretending to play the violin in a hugely successful, but fake, orchestra. This ensemble, Read More …
Author Dani Shapiro has spent her career writing about her fraught relationship with her Orthodox Jewish parents. Imagine her surprise at the age of 54 when she found out–through a home DNA testing kit–that the man she thought was her Read More …
Sarah Weinman’s The Real Lolita is so entertainingly written, it is easy to overlook the fact that there is only very limited information available about the title character. In the late 1940s, drifter Frank LaSalle convinced eleven year old Sally Read More …
Under East Germany’s hardline Communist government, the lives of ordinary citizens were bleak. Any neighbor or coworker could be a Stasi informer, and tight family bonds were the only ones that could be trusted. In Forty Autumns, former U.S. Army intelligence Read More …
Journalist Michael Scott Moore spent almost three years as a hostage held by Somali pirates. This book is his account of the uncertain, desperate, and at times violent days spent hiding out in dilapidated houses and on board a hijacked Read More …
