Hey, did you know that if you eat tomatoes from the grocery store, you’re literally eating the fruit of slave labor? Yeah, me neither. Not only are commercially grown tomatoes artificially “degreened” by ethylene gas until their skins take on the familiar reddish hue – just one of the reasons store-bought tomatoes taste either like crap or nothing – [...]
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I’ve been meaning to read American Wife for ages, since I’m a Curtis Sittenfeld fan, but I kept holding off for one big reason: did I really want to read a novel based on the life of former first lady Laura Bush? The answer, it turned out, was very much yes. I’ve long said that [...]
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Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane of Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell has been hailed by book critics from every corner as being one of the most unforgettable fictional heroines of the past decade, and they are not wrong. Called “a 20th century Huck Finn” in the July 2011 Indie Next List, Margo is a survivor in [...]
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