The New York Times – Film:
She documented her attempt to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.
Category: Books and Literature
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Steve Keene Made 300,000 Paintings in a Home Full of Easels
The New York Times – Music:
The artist’s studio and living space, created with his wife, Starling Keene, an architect, houses a one-man assembly line of affordable art — enough to fill a new book.
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We’re Reading Michael Cunningham’s ‘Specimen Days’ With the Author
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Join us Dec. 8 for a virtual conversation on this novel about love, yearning, transcendence and America.
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John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77
The New York Times – Film:
His 1971 novel became a movie, with John Houseman giving an award-winning performance as the imperious Professor Kingsfield, and later a television series.
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Read Your Way Through Istanbul
The New York Times – Travel:
Istanbul is unfathomable: old and new, real and surreal, melancholic and absurd. Elif Shafak, one of its foremost novelists, reveals its secrets.
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Eight Works to Take in After or Alongside Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’
The New York Times – T Magazine:
The author consumed countless archival articles, essays, poems and even Sunday school programs to get a feel for the Harlem Renaissance. Here is some reading to help you do the same.
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Undefinable Roles
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The chef, author and actress, whose children’s book, “Seasons of Splendour,” was reissued this month, refuses to be boxed in.
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Undefinable Roles
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The chef, author and actress, whose children’s book, “Seasons of Splendour,” was reissued this month, refuses to be boxed in.
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How Toni Morrison Wrote Her Most Challenging Novel
The New York Times – T Magazine:
‘Jazz’ is a roaming, musical book, writes the poet Morgan Parker. It reads differently than the author’s others and is said to have been her favorite.