“I thought that I had discovered that I loved science fiction,” says Hass, whose new collection is “Summer Snow.” Then he “read a lot of it and discovered that I just loved Ursula Le Guin.”
New picture books from Grace Lin, Lynne Rae Perkins, J. Patrick Lewis and more celebrate the snowy season and the brave, fascinating creatures who revel in it.
This week, Scott Simon reviews the poet Thomas Lynch’s collection of essays “The Depositions.” In 1997, Susan Jacoby wrote for the Book Review about “The Undertaking,” Lynch’s collection of essays about being a funeral director.
In 1920, a publisher told The Times, “It is my firm conviction that any book that deals sincerely with real life, that is a first-rate book, is bound to succeed.”