Joni Murphy’s novel Talking Animals is a modern-day political satire that cuts almost too close to the bone, with echoes of Orwell’s Animal Farm that reverberate throughout the subways and endless numbered streets of her not-so-fictional New York City. Because if we needed an update to that classic critique of...
It is slightly ironic, given the state of our wildlands, that we are seeing a recent cultural fascination with foraging and wild foods. One of the things Gina Rae La Cerva touches on often in her new book, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food, is why the...
[sub]Renny Golden[/sub]Reading and SigningSaturday, Oct. 19, 6pmNational Hispanic Cultural Center1701 Fourth Street SW
Published by a local press and written by a local author, Grace in the Wings takes its readers on a train ride from New York City to Los Angeles with an eventful stop in Albuquerque. This highly entertaining book offers tropes from romance, murder mystery, film noir, melodrama and historical...
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque – 3rd Edition EventsSaturday, March 23 – 7pmREI Albuquerque offsite eventTractor Brewing1800 4th Street NWSunday, March 24 – 3pmPage 1 Books5850 Eubank NESaturday, March 30 – 3pmBookworks4022 Rio Grande Blvd.Tuesday, April 2 – 6pmREI Santa Fe500 Market StreetSanta Fe, NMSaturday, April 6 – 2pmEast...
Last month, a beautiful collection of essays published by University of New Mexico Press was long-listed for the prestigious PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The book Mine, by journalist, translator and teacher Sara Viren, has already won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize and was included among...
When it comes to brutal honesty, David Sedaris has the nonfiction market cornered. The shock of total candor in his latest book, Calypso, is turned up. But even so, the author—as ever—turns his harsh wit on himself just as often as he makes victims of reality TV show participants and...
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I tend to gravitate towards cookbooks with recipes that are very similar to things I already cook. That seems like a pretty reasonable way to go about life, right? While I want to be the kind of person who goes totally out on a culinary limb to cook things wildly...
In Leslie Jamison's tome, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, the author traces two threads, merging them at well-chosen points to underline a few revelations about desire, acceptance, addiction and what it leaves in its wake. Here Jamison is historian, critic and memoirist, unflinchingly writing her own history of self...
