Mark Huling News Today

The new book, Sharkey, tells the compelling story of an unusually gifted, trained sea lion who shared the stage with practically every important performer of the first half of the twentieth century—from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald, from Broadway to Hollywood and beyond. Readers follow Sharkey and his flippered colleagues as they travel the world with stops at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, vaudeville houses, Manhattan during the Harlem Renaissance, burlesque nightclubs, mov...

Anne Pyburn Craig reviews The Unwritten Book, Samantha Hunt’s reckoning with death and unfinished manuscripts. Plus short reviews of Sharkey: When Sea Lions Were Stars of Show Business by Gary Bohan, Jr.; A History of Place by Mala Hoffman; A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Philip Dray; The Red Zone: A Love Story by Chloe Caldwell; and Sacred Send-offs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice by Sarah A. Bowen.