Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals An Orwellian Satire About The Revolution That’s Already Here 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 [...] Robin Babb \ Aug 20, 2020 Read More (Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Book Review: Feasting Wild: In Search Of The Last Untamed Food Nm-Born Writer Gina Rae La Cerva Writes About Our Obsession With—And Destruction Of—Wild Foods It is slightly ironic, given the state of our wildlands, that we are seeing a recent cultural fascination with foraging and wild foods. [...] Robin Babb \ Jul 09, 2020 Read More (Gina Rae La Cerva)
Book Review: The Music Of Her Rivers Renny Golden’s The Music Of Her Rivers [sub]Renny Golden[/sub]Reading and SigningSaturday, Oct. 19, 6pmNational Hispanic Cultural Center1701 Fourth Street SW Wendy Bustamante \ Oct 17, 2019 Read More (courtesy of the artist)
Through The 1920S And Into Albuquerque Karil Bovée’s Grace In The Wings Published by a local press and written by a local author, Grace in the Wings takes its readers on a train ride from [...] Wendy Bustamante \ Sep 12, 2019 Read More
Book News: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque – 3rd Edition EventsSaturday, March 23 – 7pmREI Albuquerque offsite eventTractor Brewing1800 4th Street NWSunday, March 24 [...] Xanthe Miller \ Mar 21, 2019 Read More
Book Review Feature: Mine Sarah Viren’s Award-Winning Essays 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 [...] Alisa Valdes \ Jan 17, 2019 Read More
Book Review: Calypso David Sedaris' Latest, Calypso, Is Both Great And Maddening When it comes to brutal honesty, David Sedaris has the nonfiction market cornered. The shock of total candor in his latest book, Calypso, [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 14, 2018 Read More (courtesy Of Little, Brown And Company)
Book Review: The New Farm: Our Ten Years At The Front Lines Of The Good Food Revolution A Memoir Of A (Profitable) Organic Farm Buy The New Farm direct from the publisher at abramsbooks.com or on Amazon hardcover for $26. Robin Babb \ Jun 07, 2018 Read More The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution
Cookbook Review: More With Less: Whole Food Cooking Made Irresistibly Simple Jodi Moreno’s First Cookbook Combines Whole Foods And Big Flavor I tend to gravitate towards cookbooks with recipes that are very similar to things I already cook. That seems like a pretty reasonable [...] Robin Babb \ May 31, 2018 Read More Jodi Moreno’s first cookbook is a flavorful “how to cook” guide (courtesy of the publisher)
Book Review: The Recovering: Intoxication And Its Aftermath Leslie Jamison's Newest Work Is Full Of Feeling And Analysis That Leads The Way To Truth 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 [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 12, 2018 Read More
