Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Books

If you want to know what freaks us out, author Benjamin Percy said, look no further than the counters of stores and gas stations, "oozing" with little bottles of Purell hand sanitizer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Boswell Book Company offers a double feature of film-related reading at 7 p.m. May 7, when David Luhrssen and Paul McComas will launch their new books.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie "The Great Gatsby."

The defining moment of Jayne Jordan's life came when she was just 9 years old. With the Nazi threat against England growing by the day, Jayne's widowed mother put her on a ship to America in 1940 as part of an evacuation of millions of British children to keep them safe from war.

Elaine Konigsburg, a former bookkeeper, chemistry student and science teacher, didn't start writing seriously until her third and youngest child was in school. When she was 37, Konigsburg published her first two books for children in 1967: "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth," and "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Maria Semple was a producer on “Arrested Development” before becoming a novelist. In her review of Semple’s “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” Los Angeles Times critic Carolyn Kellogg found quite a bit of that show’s “unexpected, antic plotting in this novel.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

NEW YORK (AP) The publisher of Stephen King, Bob Woodward and other top-selling authors has changed its policy of withholding e-books from libraries.

If you look hard enough, you can find a way to match food to just about any book your club has chosen to read and discuss. But some books make the task much easier.

Congratulations to the Book Bags, a Milwaukee book club that's won a basket of books from the Journal Sentinel in connection with Food Editor Nancy Stohs' fabulous package of stories on what book clubs eat.

Novelist Christina Schwarz, who grew within hailing distance of Pewaukee Lake, returns to the area this week with a new book that begins in her hometown.