02.04.2012 Community By the Book: Songs that tell us stories about love And so it is in human life the goal To seek, forever seek, the kindred soul Jose Marti St. Valentine’s Day is next week — the day that urges...
01.09.2012 Community By the Book: Literary menagerie equals good reading “War Horse” opened recently to rave reviews. A Spielberg movie, a Broadway play, from a book by Michael Morpurgo — eat your hearts out, all you authors out there....
10.07.2011 News By the Book: 1 book, 2 plays and how they add up September’s book club selection was ‘A Beautiful Mind’ by Sylvia Nasar, the biography of John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical genius. I felt as though school had started and...
08.14.2011 News By the Book: Writing that was out of the ballpark I was reading about a recent Yankee game and came across this: “ … a triple that was misplayed by centerfielder Nyjer Morgan. Morgan sprinted toward the warning track...
07.18.2011 News By the Book: The top 10 book survey says… The results are in. Thanks to everyone who took the time to pin down their favorite books. Some of you named 10, many noted three, a few came up...
06.17.2011 News By the Book: Satisfying results of cookbookkeeping The big box book store in Riverhead has cookbooks everywhere, and each one you pick up is more colorful than the one you just put down. They’re all over...
05.24.2011 News By the Book: What’s on your list of favorite books? I have no clue how many books are published every year in America. Oxford University Press NY was closing in on 400 in 1997, the year I retired, an...
04.25.2011 News By the Book: Their ‘nonsense’ is well worth reading We are fortunate in having two female writers, Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver, who, with great regularity, turn out complex and beautifully written books. Atwood has written more than...
03.29.2011 News By the Book: April fools! The jokes are on him What’s the best thing about words? With April Fools’ Day looming, my best answer is they can be used to create jokes, which are essentially short stories. There are...
02.28.2011 News Book Column: Reconnecting with some old friends There are 10 Commandments, several sins against the Holy Spirit, innumerable offenses that cry to heaven for vengeance and surely many other lists of forbidden acts from congregations unknown...