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THE BRIDGE HUNTER The Bridges of Booneville, New York
Located in Oneida County in north central New York State, the Town(ship) of Boonville is one of the forgotten relicts of the b...
Posted on 12/10/12 at 11:16 AM
OH, LOOK A SHINY THING! Plagiarism in North Dakota, Minnesota
One of the biggest stories of the day is this sad tale of a 28-year journalism veteran who allegedly plagiarized most of the columns he wrote in North Dakota and Minnesota. Jon Flatland even won an a...
Posted on 3/9/12 at 12:09 PM
Book Report: These tales are close to home
Today let us begin with two very productive upper Midwestern writers who continue to write about our neighborhoods with relish and sometimes very dramatic substance.
By Dave Wood, columnist , November 16, 2012
Not all is “buono” in Italia
My wife and I love to travel to Italy. We love the landscape, the architecture, the food and the people.
October 25, 2012
Book Report: Nothing that simple in Amish land
Several writers are taking their cues from earlier centuries.
In the 18th century, Samuel Richardson found he had a bestseller on his hands when he wasn’t even trying. Richardson sold stationery to the hoi polloi.
By Dave Wood, columnist , October 18, 2012
Book Review: Insider knowledge leads to gripping story; Feingold's "While America Sleeps"
White Bear Lake novelist Julie Kramer makes good use of her past experience as a news producer for NBC, CBS and WCCO-TV, which is only one reason she has become a national bestselling and award winning author of thrillers like her latest in her popular Riley Spartz series, “Shunning Sarah” (Atria Books, $23.99).
By Dave Wood, columnist , September 27, 2012
Book Report: This author shines as voice of a community
Novelist Toni Morrison has won the National Book Critics Circle, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction.
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 29, 2012
Book Review: Did she or didn’t she: Does it even matter?
Dorothy Parker was born on this day 119 years ago in West End, N.J., just a year after poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, about which Parker said “I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.”
By Dave Wood, columnist , August 24, 2012
Book Report: Remedy/curse: Drug highs and lows
Thomas De Quincy was born on this day in 1785, and would later write an eerie book that captured the romantic imagination, “Confessions of an Opium Eater.”
August 17, 2012
Book Report: Duluth poet: A blunt, dazzling wordsmith
Normally I write about two books each week — one national and one regional.
By Dave Wood, columnist , July 30, 2012
Book Report: Author revels in fine details
Oh, shucks, thought I. Sara Rath has given up on non-fiction and has taken to penning novels when I received the Spring Green author’s “The Waters of Star Lake,” by Sara Rath (Terrace Books, $26.95).
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 28, 2012
You can hear the crack of the bat
In one sense, baseball is a game of numbers, numbers involving runs batted in, earned run averages, singles, two-baggers, homers, attendance. My late friend Dave Goldsmith subscribed to Baseball Digest, several baseball newspapers and even flunked out of a college because he spent his entire freshman year memorizing baseball statistics.
By Dave Wood, Book Reviewer , June 21, 2012
Book Report: Genre readers are going for smut
Extra! Extra! Late breaking news from the publishing industry.
And it’s not good news.
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 18, 2012
Book Report: Guess I didn’t know her that well
I was very happy to receive “Walking the Rails,” by Ethel Erickson Radner (available at iUniverse.com; barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com, $13.95 paper; $23.95 hardcover; $3.99 e-book).
By Dave Wood, columnist , June 07, 2012
Book Report: Lyrical words tell the tale
Gary Boelhower, a St. Scholastica theology professor, writes on a variety of topics, his first wife, his daughter’s wedding, his gayness, his grandmother “ground down by the hard soil of two failed farms.”
May 31, 2012
Book Report: New book, same old Henry
Ever since I read “The Education of Henry Adams,” I’ve thought of its author, the great-grandson of our second president and grandson of John Quincy Adams, as a sanctimonious little prig.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 24, 2012
Book Report: Even Rough Rider Teddy couldn’t tame NYC
Back in the 1950s adolescents looking for exciting reading about the facts of life, etc., turned to a series of books by muckraking journalists Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.
By Dave Wood, columnist , May 18, 2012
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