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T. C. (Coraghessan) Boyle - Guest Butler Ann Connery Frantz won the Dr. Neila Seshachari Award in 2010 for best fiction for her short story, Samaritan. She writes a book club column for the Worcester,
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me - It’s a spectacular irony that Go Set a Watchman and “Between the World and Me” were published on the same day. One upends half a century of admiration for Atticus
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Fleishman Is in Trouble - “Fleishman Is in Trouble” was the hot New York novel of summer 2019. What was Fleishman's trouble? As you might have guessed: a Manhattan white man’s midlife crisis and sexual
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond - Paul Desmond was visiting with his friend Doug Ramsey. Desmond was a chain smoker and a legendary drinker, so this visit was to be in a bar. A hotel bar. Desmond
Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets - Dick Cavett is, for me, like that cliché about the 1960s: If you remember him, you weren’t there. I know I wasn’t --- he launched his first talk show on
Talkin’ Big - I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Tom Dittmer has written the best memoir I’ve read this year. And the weird thing is: I know Tom, we’ve spent a little
Tammy Duckworth: Every Day Is a Gift - In the rarefied world of celebrity ghostwriters, Lisa Dickey is the gold standard. She has worked on 20 books, and ten have become New York Times bestsellers. She wrote her
Tana French: In the Woods - Guest Butler Nora Levine introduced herself by asking if I knew the mystery novels of Jacqueline Winspear. I did not, so she produced an astonishingly good piece about Winspear and
Tana French: The Secret Place - Guest Butler Nora Levine is our Tana French expert; she last reviewed French’s “In the Woods.” In her other life, Levine, a former law librarian, unravels the mysteries of her
Tana French: The Trespasser - GUEST BUTLER NORA LEVINE owns the literary mystery/thriller corner of this site. That’s my good fortune — I can’t read everything — and yours too. Nora introduced us — well,
Tara Westover: Educated - If you haven’t read “Educated,” I feel better --- I’ve been thinking I’m about the last literate person in America to read it. It was published in April 2018. It’s been
Taro Gomi - “The most boring field of all is art,” says Taro Gomi, the Japanese artist who has illustrated about 300 books. That is, art that has been classified, analyzed, defined. He'll
Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus - The wine world’s cool kids are buzzing about Georgia. That is, the Georgia that is bordered on the North by Russia, to the South by Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. If you're
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - The amount of cruelty in this country is now at epic levels. Pass over -- because some readers would call that a political opinion, which is verboten on these screens --
Teacher of the Year - Well, here's a first --- five years into HeadButler.com, and I'm finally recommending a self-published book. Does it need editing? Badly. If I cut 50 pages out of this 300 page
Tell Me A Riddle - Her father escaped from a Russian prison and, smartly, fled to the United States. He and his wife settled in Nebraska, where he worked as farmer, packinghouse worker
Temptation - After some of these days, I’d give a lot for a quick, mindless read. James Patterson? Nick Sparks? Can’t do it. But every once in a while a book is pressed upon
Ten: All the Foods We Love and 10 Perfect Recipes for Each - Back in the 1970s, when many Americans were under the impression that wrapping a boneless chicken breast around a stick of butter and deep-frying it was “gourmet” cooking,
Testimony - A million years ago, I wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine about a murder at Yale. The victim, a privileged young woman, was a student
The Manny - It's easy to hate Holly Peterson. She was born rich --- her father, a lord of the Blackstone Group, is said to be worth $1.9 billion.
