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“Searching for Cassady,” an illustrated children’s book, can be found on Amazon.com
Some books should be sold shrink-wrapped with a box of tissues. Or two. That would be Jojo Moyes’ “Me Before You,†which brings new meaning to book grief. Louisa Clark is 27 and newly unemployed in an English tourist town where there aren’t a lot options. She’s not educated or worldly. She lives at home
(...)Then a poet rocker, Patti Smith gave a reading at the small Catholic girls school I went to in Manhattan in the late 1970s. Most of us knew of her from our own late nights downtown, at CBGB’s or Irving Place or St. Mark’s Church. Getting her in the door and up into our auditorium
(...)Can a great novel — a classic! — have a bad ending? Joan Acocella’s thoughtful post on the New Yorker’s “Page Turner†blog calls out the lame last halves and endings of, among others, Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,†Charles Dicken’s “David Copperfield,â€and Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights.†Her point: the characters’ intense struggles — for freedom,
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