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Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A Novel - Tom Perotta, a freshly minted graduate of a creative writing graduate program, had an idea for a novel: “a tight-knit working-class family wins the lottery and proceeds to fall apart.”
Tramps Like Us: Bruce Springsteen’s“Born to Run” and Howard Massey’s “Roadie” - “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative
Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by the Small Family Restaurants of Italy - SUPPORTING BUTLER: Head Butler no longer gets a commission on your Amazon purchases. So the only way you can contribute to Head Butler’s bottom line is to become a patron
Travel Anywhere (And Avoid Being a Tourist): Travel trends and destination inspiration for the modern adventurer - You do not want to open “Travel Anywhere” if you have been drinking or toking. First, you will turn down the corners of pages of destinations, hotels and restaurants that
Travel North America: (and Avoid Being a Tourist) - Two years ago, Jeralyn Gerba and Pavia Rosati published Travel Anywhere (And Avoid Being a Tourist): Travel trends and destination inspiration for the modern adventurer. Drawing on the travel they’d
Travels -
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us -
Trouble - Her fourth novel won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award, just in case you are, on the basis of Trouble, not inclined to take Kate Christensen seriously. What would tamper your enthusiasm
True Crime: An American Anthology -
Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde - Dorothy "Dolly" Wilde was five years old when her uncle Oscar died in 1900 at the age of 46. But if anyone in the Wilde clan inherited his wit ---
Trust - I prefer to read short novels. I write short novels. “Trust” is 402 pages. I read it twice. The first time, because it’s just so well written, I couldn’t put it
Try Not to Hold It Against Me: A Producer’s Life - 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
Turning Tables - One of my friends once had every job imaginable in a three-star restaurant. On the side, she worked parties for the mega-rich. Now she's married and socializes with
Twelve Months of Monastery Salads - I learned about food preparation from a very talented mother who tended to overdo things. Habitually --- if not compulsively --- Mom made the simple complex. The results
Twenty Thirty: The Real Story of What Happens to America - When last we left Albert Brooks, we thought we had a pretty good idea of his range. He wrote and directed and starred in his own movies. He had plum roles
Two If by Sea - In 1996, I co-founded the book site on AOL that is now Bookreporter.com. In 1996, Jacquelyn Mitchard published her first novel, “The Deep End of the Ocean.” Oprah
Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen - My wife worked for Pino Luongo for years and years. Mark Strausman cooked our wedding dinner. And now, burdened by this massive collaboration and friendship, I'm going to try to convince
Twyla Tharp: Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life - There are forces of nature, and then there is Twyla Tharp. She has choreographed a zillion dances, collaborated on landmark movies (“Hair,” “Ragtime” and "Amadeus”), and trained several generations of
U2 & I: The Photographs 1982-2004 - U2 & I: The Photographs 1982-2004 Anton Corbijn The midwest in midwinter ---
Undone - UPDATE: This piece was published on Head Butler in May, 2015 --- a New York publisher has made the book available. The Times ran a story --- on April 10,
