Karl Marlantes once again brings us an epic that can’t be put down, this time set in the forests and on the rivers of southwest Washington, all soon to be engulfed by logging and fishing. Deep River combines the story of immigrant siblings (from Finland) and a larger Scandinavian community, the desires of families escaping …
Writing my memoir, River House, was a seized opportunity and an accepted challenge. I did it for fun, with no audience, no publisher in mind. I didn’t know much about the publishing process, and wouldn’t have expected that it would include public speaking, which is pretty much the opposite of writing in solitude. When my book …
Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …
