Inventor of Detective Arkady Renko who first appeared in “Gorky Park,” Martin Cruz Smith recounts his latest adventures in Moscow and points east and what it’s […]
Booktalk: Mark Lee Gardner, authority on the Wild West
The author explains why Jesse and Frank James, along with the Younger brothers, triggered the largest manhunt in US history in 1876 after a Minnesota bank […]
Booktalk: Teacher Rafe Esquith, author of “Lighting Their Fires”
Author of several books, Rafe teaches fifth grade at inner-city Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles. Each year his students put on a Shakespeare play. He is the […]
Booktalk: A Tribute to Kent Haruf
A tribute to Kent Haruf who wrote his award-winning novels on an old typewriter in a writing shed in his family’s back yard. Kent Haruf died […]