What Are You Reading by George Diepenbrock
Readers share favorite fantasy and urban fantasy picks from The Dresden Files Grave Peril to The Gathering Storm and Spirit Bound. Mentions include Jim Butcher Robert Jordan Brandon Sanderson Richelle Mead and a 1978 cattle drive tale from Hays Kansas to Kansas City stockyards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Jim Butcher
Lynn Clark
Lawrence
Robert Jordan
Brandon Sanderson
Joe Osborn
Robert Day
Hays
Kan
Kansas City
Wilson the loner antihero inspires Clowes graphic novel
Oakland artist Daniel Clowes creates Wilson, a self loathing middle aged man who haunts Grand Avenue coffee shops. The book blends humor and pathos as Wilson seeks connection while delivering sharp one liner punchlines. Clowes notes Wilson resembles himself and reflects on his own career from Lloyd Llewellyn to Eightball and Ghost World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Clowes
Oakland
Calif
Wilson
Grand Avenue
Schlub
Clowes
Drawn and Quarterly
David Boring
Enid Coleslaw
Erika
Charles
Ella
Chicago
The
New Yorker
Cody
Berkeley
New York Times
Bagel
Piedmont Avenue
Jennie
Cal
Pratt Institute
New York
Lloyd Llewellyn
Brooklyn
Terry Zwigoff
Thora Birch
Scarlett Johansson
Zwigoff
John Malkovich
Jim Broadbent
Steve Buscemi
Robert Crumb
Bestselling Books in a New York Times List Summary
The New York Times notes top titles including 61 Hours by Lee Child set in South Dakota with a witness in a drug trial, Storm Prey by John Sandford, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Innocent by Scott Turow, Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin, Spoken From the Heart by Laura Bush, War by Sebastian Junger, The Big Short by Michael Lewis, The Promise by Jonathan Alter, To Save America by Newt Gingrich, Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler, and Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris, highlighting varied fiction and non fiction bestsellers and their themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Child
Delacorte
Jack Reacher
South Dakota
John Sandford
Putnam
Lucas
Kathryn Stockett
Amy Einhorn
Mississippi
Scott Turow
Grand Central
Rusty Sabic
Tommy Molto
Turow
Emily Giffin
St. Martin's
Laura Bush
Scribner
Sebastian Junger
Afghanistan
Michael Lewis
Norton
Jonathan Alter
Simon & Schuster
Obama
Afghanistan War
White House
America
Newt Gingrich
Joe DeSantis
Regnery
Ex FBI agent writes about murky world of art theft
Former FBI undercover agent Robert K. Wittman recounts two decades chasing art thieves in Priceless. Using a forged dealer persona, he recovered over 225 million dollars in stolen cultural property and neared solving the 1990 Gardner Museum heist. The memoir blends sting life with vaults of history and crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FBI
Crown
Robert K. Wittman
Bob Clay
Wittman
U.S
Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Crimi
Nals
Gardner
Rembrandt
Vermeer
Washington
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Aerospace Engineering
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Santa Rosa
Mary McNulty
St. Louis
Stephen King
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Contra Costa
Poet's
Patrick Pritchard
Mniccuma
Ljworld.com
Chelse
Chelsea Handle
Review
Jonathan Lopez
Associated Press
Hatel
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