Books



“Pushcart Prize XXXVI”
Edited by Bill Henderson
Pushcart Press, $18.95


    Now in its 36th year, the...

“My Dyslexia”
Philip Schultz
W.W. Norton, $21.95

    If New York’s Gilded Age had once appeared to be gently disappearing into the pages of the history books, the last few years, laden with financial malfeasance, Wall...



“Kayak Morning”
Roger Rosenblatt
Ecco, $13.99

    Last year was the year of the grief memoir. Joyce Carol Oates’s...

“The Last Whaler”
Nicholas Stevensson Karas
AuthorHouse, $25


    When I checked my morning mail several months...

    Another year . . . and another totally subjective list of my favorite books of the year. As ever, it is a personal list, and one that totally leans toward my own sensibilities...

“Portrait of Long Island”

    When it comes to gift-giving, books are all well and good as gestures, but, let’s face it, they...

    Reading Warren H. Phillips’s new autobiography, “Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal,” I was reminded of the expression...

    Thomas McGonigle’s “Going to Patchogue” is a slight, basically plotless metafictional novel of loss, identity, and discovery. First published by the Dalkey...