“Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown” collects tales of hardscrabble lives, as captured by the Mississippi writer who died in 2004, at the age of 53.
New books from Isabelle Arsenault, Grant Snider and more speak to children’s curiosity about everything from the color of nighttime to difficult stuff in the news.
New graphic biographies of the novelist and the Supreme Court justice show the determined paths they followed, from quietly rebellious girlhoods to full-on iconhood.
“He was an old dog,” says the Emmy-winning actor, writer and producer (whose new book is “Fleabag: The Scriptures”), “but I love how visceral his writing is.”
Jorge Comensal’s first novel, “The Mutations,” features an attorney rendered mute by tongue cancer who finds comfort in the profane squawks of a parrot.