Books Archive |
Martha Stewart’s Hors d’Oeuvres Handbook - Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook "Martha Stewart" is such a hot-button name ---
Martha’s Vineyard: To Everything There Is a Season - I met Peter Simon in 1969 at the radical/hippie farm in Vermont that Ray Mungo chronicled in Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times With Liberation News Service. I
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) - Mary Oliver has died. She was 83. Appropriately, her obituary in the New York Times cites her poem, "When Death Comes." When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I
Matrimony - It's hard to imagine a more radical book --- a traditional novel. Characters you care about, even when they make dumb mistakes. Dialogue that sounds like people could actually say it. A plot
Medal of Honor - War changed half a century ago, when armed conflict stopped being about nations and started being about “liberation.” And at that point, the targets of violence changed ---
Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France’s Cote d’Azur and Italy’s Costa Bella - David Shalleck had cooked in a number of noted American restaurants. But like any cook worth his knives, he wanted to be a chef. He needed
Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion - The problem with “the book of the moment” is that a moment lasts only 30 seconds --- and then the next “book of the moment” comes along, and the next
Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps - James Salter is the American writer I most often re-read. I’m not the only writer who does. Salter’s supreme gift is the sentence --- he produces the best sentences of
Men Die - I was 14 when “Men Die” fell into my hands. The basic plot was so simple even a kid could follow it --- a Navy ammunition dump blows up,
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming - If the Pope needed a prom date, Naomi Oreskes would be his first call. He's clear about climate change; it's real, we cause most of it, and we need to
Michael Powell: Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College - You take your career in your hands if you dare to write about campus issues. Facts are elusive; people bring their own. And although their "facts" are often what you
Michel Roux Sauces: Revised and Updated Edition - Unless you grew up with a chef in the kitchen, there’s an excellent chance that your first memory of “sauce” is Campbell’s condensed mushroom soup. Heated without water so it
Mick and Keith: Never Stop: My Conversations with the Rolling Stones - If you want to see the Rolling Stones --- and they’re 70-ish now, so this really could be the last time --- prepare to break the bank. To sit behind the
Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town
Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better – and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own - I’ve been thinking that some of my physical complaints might be side effects of the meds I take. Like Lipitor, which was, for many years, the most frequently prescribed drug
Miranda Lambert: Y’all Eat Yet?: Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen - I haven’t been to Texas since I interviewed Tom Cruise in Dallas in 1989, and given the politics there, the odds I’ll be returning any time soon are zero to
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - We don’t deal with politics on HeadButler.com --- it’s pointlessly divisive, and there are a gazillion sites where kicking political opponents is considered Good Fun --- but can we discuss
Mix Shake Stir: Recipes from Danny Meyer’s Acclaimed New York City Restaurants - My mother has a glass of Manischewitz Cream Red Concord --- “a sweet but balanced wine with a velvety mouth feel” --- once every decade or so. Me? Two
Mohsin Hamid: The Most Important Novelist Now Writing? - Curtis Sittenfeld was asked: Is there a book you wish you had written? Her reply: “I love Mohsin Hamid’s novels --- “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “How to Get Filthy Rich in
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali - I love the music of Mali. Love how the songs are about community --- farming and water and schools. And a passionate, exciting CD called Divas
