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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - Her husband was a minister --- and a pig. You know the type: jealous, possessive, calls the wife 70 times a day if he suspects she's
Kafka’s Other Trial: The Letters to Felice - “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K. He knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” So begins The Trial. And with those 22
Kara Swisher: Burn Book: A Tech Love Story - The most important event in Kara Swisher’s life occurred when she was five. Her father had a new job, running a department at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. He had just bought
Kate Tempest - The program is archived, available all week, but I treat “Cavalcade” as appointment listening --- on Sunday nights, you can find me writing with one ear on Paul Cavalconte’s exquisite
Kathryn Harrison: Life After ‘The Kiss’ - Most of us excavate our secrets privately. And slowly. So did Kathryn Harrison --- until, in 1997, she published “The Kiss,” an unsparing account of her predatory father and the sexual
Katsura - The book you really want is Katsura: A Princely Retreat. It’s out of print, but you can find a copy at Amazon.com for $140. Failing that, you’ll be well rewarded
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day - “The Remains of the Day” won the Booker Prize. The film adaptation was nominated for eight Academy Awards. In 2017 Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize. In his acceptance speech, he
Kazuo Ishiguro: “An Artist of the Floating World” - GUEST BUTLER BARBARA FINKELSTEIN is the author of Summer Long-a-coming. Her pieces for Head Butler include In Defense of Long Books, The Phantom Tollbooth, and The Battle Hymn of the
Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy - Rome. 1985. Paula Butturini is a correspondent for United Press International. John Tagliabue is a New York Times reporter spending a year in Rome. They have the life you may
Kevin Costner: As he was then, so he is now. - SUPPORTING BUTLER: You can become a patron of this site, and automatically donate any amount you please — starting with $1 — each month. The service that enables this is
King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking: Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains - In the interest of eating your way to eternal life, you have no doubt bought wheat products that you believed were righteous. And why not? The package said “stone-ground,” “100% wheat,”
Knives on the Cutting Edge: The Great Chefs’ Dining Revolution - “Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy,” says the ancient general in “The Big Sleep,” as he urges Humphrey Bogart to smoke and
Kurt Vonnegut: “Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them. Those years were adventures. Planned years are not.” - On May Day, 1970, Kurt Vonnegut --- the suddenly famous author of “Slaughterhouse-Five” --- drove from his home on Cape Cod to a hippie farm near Brattleboro, Vermont. There was
L.A. Burning - I don’t read thrillers, and that goes double for thrillers with a detective as the main character, but a friend introduced me to David Taylor, who had written “Night Life,”
Lacks Self-Control: True Stories I Waited Until My Parents Died To Tell - Roy Sekoff was the brilliant and indispensable founding editor of the Huffington Post. Let me translate that: From 2005 to 2016, he was second banana to the founder, Arianna Huffington,
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle - What’s the attraction? It’s not just the people, it’s the house. Because it’s filmed at Highclere Castle, arguably Britain’s most famous stately home, “Downton Abbey’ is real-estate porn at a
Lamentations of the Father - How does a man become a murderer? Not the kind of question you and I ask ourselves, but Ian Frazier has thought deeply. Done the homework. And, in He, The Murderer, he
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley & Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley - Guest Butler Mark Hipgrave lends his voluminous musical expertise to a blues show on community radio station 4ZZZ in Brisbane, Australia. On HeadButler.com, he has shared his enthusiasm for Son House
Last Words - It’s hard to get excited about a comedian when you don’t watch TV and don’t go to comedy clubs. I missed George Carlin when he was making a name for
Laurie Colwin - On October 23, 1992, with her daughter tucked in and her husband next to her, Laurie Colwin went to sleep. She did not wake up. She was 48 years old.
