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"The Food of a Younger Land" by Mark Kurlansky
He had me at Vermont Apple Dumplings. He had me again at North Carolina Chitterling Strut. And, I fell under his spell once more at Puget Sound Indian Salmon Feasts.
Read more »Best of 2009 Roundtable: The Critics Speak
I'm going to push this one live without too much commentary for the moment, because I want everyone to have the chance to watch and laugh along with me, Ron Charles (fiction editor for The Washington Post), Louis Bayard (book reviewer and bestselling author), and Maureen Corrigan (book reviewer for NPR's Fresh Air).
Try to stay until the very end, because we do discuss...#fembook! Why weren't more women on the Best of 2009 lists? Some interesting opinions, here.
I hope you'll let me know what you think of this roundtable, because we'd love to have this group back to The Book Studio. If you prefer to email rather than leave a comment: thebookmaven at gmail dot com. Thanks!
Read more »The Book Maven's Top 10 Books of 2009
Choosing my Top Ten books of the year has been agonizing. I wish I had an office full of colleagues to argue with, but for this year at least the list is all my responsibility.
You'll note that many of these books appeared on The Book Studio in one way or another. For some, I conducted interviews with the authors; for others, I wrote reviews. That is not deliberate deck-stacking; it's a function of the fact that I try very hard to choose books that I believe will be strong -- but also books that intrigue me and that I want to read.
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