Derby winning breeder tells a tale of horsemen gone wrong
By Linda B. Blackford lblackford@herald-leader.com
In a way, maybe it all happened too quickly. There was Jim Squires, robust, rambunctious editor with his golden parachute from the Chicago Tribune and a nerve born of steering large newspapers and a presidential campaign. In the mid-1990s, he buys some broodmares, good ones, not great ones, given that the golden parachute is from a newspaper company rather than Goldman Sachs. One day, just a few years later, a grey colt is born and that grey colt, Monarchos, wins the 2001 Kentucky Derby.
Book review: Like industry, 'Headless Horsemen' has issues
By Alicia Wincze awincze@herald-leader.com
Jim Squires has some issues.
Research-backed novel views JFK's pain, affairs
Reviewed by Colette Bancroft St. Petersburg Times
Readers could spend a lot of time trying to sort fact from fiction in American Adulterer, but that might lead them away from the book's truth.
Brown's latest symbolizes e-book debate
By Motoko Rich and Brad Stone New York Times News Service
Dan Brown's fans have waited six long years for The Lost Symbol, his follow-up to the mega-blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code that is being published in hardcover on Sept. 15. Will those who want to read it in e-book form wait a little longer?
'Best Friends' isn't writer's best effort
Reviewed by Alicia Rancilio Associated Press
Addie Downs and Valerie Adler became BFFs when they were both 9. Then something happened. And, as it goes with so many best friends, it was TTYN — talk to you never.
'Publish me,' she said, her eyes locked on the book editor
By Victor Yang Herald-Leader Staff Writer
Jenny Clark's interesting fact for her second Jeopardy! audition? She is a medical physicist by day, a romance writer by night.
Three earth-friendly stories for kids
By Rebecca Young McClatchy Newspapers
Three terrific new books can help youngsters understand and embrace concepts contained within the new meaning of "green."
Writers bring new insights, humanity to story of Bataan
Reviewed by Dwight Garner New York Times News Service
The Bataan Death March has been written about before, and well, by a number of historians. Memoirs alone about Bataan fill a long, harrowing shelf. Their titles cry out in silent pain, bitterness and defiance: My Hitch in Hell, No Uncle Sam, We Refused to Die.
Combined edition of Verna Mae Slone's books released
Herald-Leader Staff Report
Two classic works by the late Eastern Kentucky writer Verna Mae Slone have been combined into a single edition.
Presidents and health care: a detailed history
By Hillel Italie Associated Press
NEW YORK — As Congress takes on President Barack Obama's call to overhaul health care, the desire for change will be tested — by the expense, by politics, by resistance from doctors and private insurers, and by the fear by some of "socialized medicine."
The mystery of mystical experiences
By David O'Reilly The Philadelphia Inquirer
As mystical experiences go, Barbara Bradley Hagerty's transcendent moment was not the kind that launches a new world religion. Still, it changed her forever.
E-reading gains in popularity
By John Wenzel The Denver Post
Like a lot of readers, Kimberly Field likes and laments her new Kindle.
Author's genre: environmental Western novel
By Victor Yang Herald-Leader Staff Writer
Crime thrillers, familial love and environmental activism usually don't find themselves together in the same book. But all three elements blend into Below Zero, the ninth novel in 2009 Edgar Award winner C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series.
'Southern Vampires' author has strong sense of place
By Jon Gambrell Associated Press
MAGNOLIA, Ark. — Vampires typically roam the fogged streets of London or the humid nights of New Orleans, opulent worlds filled with beautiful monsters and formal balls.
Kentucky's Holocaust tales
By Victor Yang vyang@herald-leader.com
They fled from horror to find unfamiliarity. They came from the atrocities of Nazi Germany to the quaintness of small-town America.
