The author of "Blood Will Out" recommends Charles Portis' comic tale of a hapless Southerner on the hunt for the wife who done him wrong.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Literature
For all that's been written about Karl Marx, there's been no book about his marriage to Jenny Marx - until now. Biographer Mary Gabriel explains why Marx's family life had a profound influence on his thinking.
Karen Russell bookmarks "A High Wind in Jamaica" by Richard Hughes.
There’s a theory that reading fiction helps us learn to understand other people — and in the process, become kinder, better, more empathetic ourselves. Joshua Landy says fiction can help us be kinder and more empathetic.
Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."
Nicola Griffith set her award-winning historical novel, "Hild," in seventh-century Britain. It's based on the real life of the fierce young girl who eventually became one of the most powerful women of her day -- St. Hilda of Whitby.
Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.
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