Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald’ 
• July 12, 2023

Reviewed by Kitty Kelley  Analyzing the author via his lesser known stories.  Success is said to be a bitch goddess who sprays splendor like a shooting star in the night […]

‘King: A Life’: Separating the Man from the Myth
• June 14, 2023

They said one to another  Behold here cometh the Dreamer  Let us slay him  And we shall see what will become of his dreams.                                                                          – Genesis 37:19-20   These words […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy’   
• May 10, 2023

Honoring the heroes of a little-known episode from WWII. Reviewed by Kitty Kelley  “The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy” could be a magnificent film under the direction of Steven Spielberg with […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises’ 
• April 12, 2023

A literary critic admits his shortcomings. The writing life is full of potholes — long days and solitary nights followed by rewrites, rejections, and, for most, scant rewards. Upon publication […]

Of Inhuman Bondage: Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ Shines a Light on an Insidious Evil
• February 8, 2023

Colson Whitehead is to American literature what the Rolls-Royce is to automobiles: revered and unrivaled. Having published eight novels, two books of nonfiction, and numerous essays and short stories, the […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Shine,’ a Path to Stardom
• January 5, 2023

’Tis the season, and January is the time for New Year’s resolutions. So, in that spirit, Larry Thompson, a Hollywood magnate, offers his book, “SHINE: A Powerful 4-Step Plan for […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Shirley Hazzard: a Writing Life’ 
• December 1, 2022

An entertaining, edifying look at the underappreciated Australian author Shirley Hazzard’s first short-story submission was plucked from a slush pile of 30,000 unsolicited manuscripts at the New Yorker by fiction […]

David Bruce Smith’s Grateful American Book Award Honors Michelle Coles 
• November 9, 2022

No one hosts a more spectacular dinner party for a better cause than David Bruce Smith. His heavy parchment invitations of exquisite calligraphy arrive each fall to announce his Grateful […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Manifesto: On Never Giving Up’ 
• October 12, 2022

The Booker Prize-winning author owes it all to tenacity. And talent.  Reviewed by Kitty Kelley  If “perseverance is genius in disguise,” then Bernardine Evaristo is a 22-carat gold, diamond-encrusted genius. […]

‘Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom’ 
• September 14, 2022

A Riveting Saga That Belongs on the Silver Screen.  Lights! Camera! Action!  Andrew Nagorski’s “Saving Freud” ought to be coming to a theater near you. This nonfiction work crackles like […]