Book Review When the Going Was Good By Graydon CarterPenguin: 432 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. The retroactive FOMO flows fast and thick through “When the Going Was Good,” former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir about the final … Read more
Book Review Show Don’t Tell By Curtis SittenfeldRandom House: 320 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Bestselling “Prep” and “Romantic Comedy” author Curtis Sittenfeld dwells in the comically awkward. In her utterly diverting collection of 12 short stories, “Show Don’t … Read more
Tom Robbins, a 1970s counterculture author hailed as “the most dangerous writer in the world” by a leading Italian critic and named one of the 100 best writers of the 20th century by Writer’s Digest magazine in 2000, has died. He was 92. His son Fleetwood confirmed his death Sunday to the New York Times. … Read more
