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With an eye on reviewing fiction and nonfiction that has regional resonance for Connecticut or Long Island, Joan Baum considers the timeliness and significance of recently published work: what these books have to say to a broad group of readers today and how they say it in a distinctive or unique manner, taking into account style and structure as well as subject matter.
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In Lauren Rico’s psychological thriller Mirror Image, a psychiatrist treats a woman who lost her identical twin, forcing her to confront her own grief while uncovering dark secrets and manipulation.
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cole Porter and George Gershwin! These are just a few of the innovators of American music featured in Songbook Summit: Fifteen Pioneers of American Sound.
The young adult novel Sold features a first-person account of the sex trafficking world in Nepal. It’s also one of the most banned books in the United States. WSHU's Book Critic Joan Baum said it’s a poetically written story of love and endurance.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead is out with Cool Machine - the final novel in his Harlem Trilogy. Our book critic Joan Baum says it features some of the most impressive writing Whitehead has ever done.
In author Amy Bloom's first murder mystery, Blunt Instrument, a former English professor turned PI must manage her emotional mess while tracking down a killer at an elite university in Connecticut. Check out Joan Baum's review right here.
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