In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. This is one of those classics, you know, and everyone is supposed to read it.  Somehow, as is true of many classics, I sailed through my extensive liberal education without reading this book in class.  So I read it after reading The Burning of Bridget Cleary, figuring two true-crime […]

The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich I’ve been working through Erdrich’s oeuvre for the last year or two, and she has turned into a go-to author for me.  I don’t know if any of her books can match the mastery of The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse in my eyes.   But […]