Tim Curley's Liner Notes
The Sonoma music writer’s thoughts on local music happenings.
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The Sonoma music writer’s thoughts on local music happenings.
Emma Cline talks wealth, gender and the pull toward what’s not on the page.
For many of us, summer reading involves books that engage us but don’t feel like work to get through. One genre that frequently fits the bill is mystery. Cases in point: two new Jewish-flavored mystery novels.
Booksellers unanimously recommend the Barack Obama memoir, A Promised Land. Whether speaking or writing, Obama knows how to turn a phrase. In A Promised Land, he colorfully captures his early life and political career, then goes on to chronicle his 2004 Senatorial campaign, his presidential campaign and his first presidential term. Slide 2 of 10 Readers' Books store owner Andy Weinberger can sell them and write them too. His second installation in a three-part murder mystery series, A Slide 3 of 10 Jude Sales gives high praise to Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's fictionalization of Shakespeare’...