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Tag Archives: Geraldine Brooks
Best books for beach reading
This week’s edition of BookPageXTRA is all about beach reads. We’re also celebrating beach reads in the June and July issues of BookPage. In fact, in the issues, you will see this symbol (at the left) designating which books are … Continue reading
Best Books of 2011, #13: ‘Caleb’s Crossing’ by Geraldine Brooks
As part of our Best Books of 2011 coverage, our editors weigh in on some of their personal favorites from the list. Geraldine Brooks has a genius for finding history’s most fascinating stories. In Caleb’s Crossing, she turns to the early … Continue reading
Best Books of 2011: #11-#20
We’re creeping ever-closer to the top of our best books of 2011 list. Watch for our Top 10 in just two days! In the meantime, tell us what your favorite book of 2011 was. If you do, you could win … Continue reading
Monday Contest: Best American Collection
The end of the year is approaching. Have you made your “Best of” lists yet? Geraldine Brooks was working on hers early this year, as the editor of Best American Short Stories 2011. Here’s what she told me about assembling … Continue reading
Trailer Tuesday: ‘Caleb’s Crossing’ by Geraldine Brooks
Our interview with Geraldine Brooks about Caleb’s Crossing is BookPage’s May cover story. The novel is about a Wampanoag boy who graduated from Harvard in 1665—and the Puritan woman he befriends, and who longs for an education. In the interview, … Continue reading
‘Caleb’s Crossing’ and the lure of language
Today marks the publication date for Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, the subject of our May cover story. Telling the tale of an early part of American history, the book follows a young Native American boy who becomes a Harvard graduate—in … Continue reading
All-star editors for Best American series
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced the editors for its 2011 Best American series (via Shelf Life), and there are a lot of BookPage favorites in the bunch. Click on the editors’ names for our reviews of their past books. The … Continue reading
Geraldine Brooks has a new book coming on May 3!
As a fan of Brooks’ fiction and nonfiction, I just couldn’t omit the exclamation point from the title of this post. Her second novel, March, a riff on Little Women, won the Pulitzer for fiction [read our interview with Brooks about … Continue reading
