While both are after larger, more unsettling truths that don’t readily make for such conventional fiction, Visible Man remains pretty compelling stuff, largely thanks to Klosterman’s incisive, humorous prose and his pointed criticisms on human social behavior in a heavily mediated age. The book’s plot hinges on a Philip K. Dick-type premise, with the evermeta […]
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Feel the Bern
Ever had one of those days? Your co-workers are at each others’ throats, debt is piling up, you can’t get your mind off your ex no matter how hard you try — and then someone tries to shoot one of your customers. Charles “Shake” Bouchon is having one of those days. Whiplash River, the […]
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One for the books
Ryan Tate credit: Mark Hancock The Journal Record broke the story of Tate Publishing firing of 25 employees and released the leaked audio of the meeting in which Tate prayed with, insulted and threatened staff. The Mustang-based publishing company was founded on Christian principles in 2001 by Richard and Rita Tate, Ryan Tate’s parents, and […]
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Big leagues
Soon we will be watching the Oklahoma City Thunder compete for an NBA championship. Like the highs and lows of a seven-game playoff series, the story of how major-league professional sports came to Oklahoma City is about tragedy, triumph, plot twists and larger-than-life characters. A new book by Mayor Mick Cornett’s former chief of staff, […]
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‘Cat’ lady
It’s not often that a cat writes a New York Times best-selling series, but for more than 20 years now, Sneaky Pie Brown has defied the odds, with the help of her human owner, Rita Mae Brown, of course. This month, the 20th anniversary book of Brown’s Mrs. Murphy mystery series, The Big Cat Nap, […]
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Storied speaker
A stranger is watching. Where are the children? A cry in the night. Suspense killing you yet? Those phrases also are titles of novels written by The New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, the “queen of suspense.” The esteemed crime writer will speak Tuesday at Literary Voices, annual fundraising dinner to benefit the […]
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Frontier cookin’
Ree Drummond 1 p.m. Saturday Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway 842-2900 The megapopular blogger and author will speak and sign books at Full Circle Bookstore to benefit the YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter. A Bartlesville native who attended college in Los Angeles, Drummond is a city girl accidentally gone country after she fell for a […]
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Fact and fiction
Tracy Daugherty considered himself a fiction writer with no ambition of writing anything else, but the Oklahoma City federal building bombing changed all that. Although he lived in Oregon, he had spent much of his childhood visiting his grandparents in southwestern Oklahoma, and he felt a strong need to come to Oklahoma City in the […]
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Seeking subversion
Oklahoma City pastor Robin Meyers said he believes his sixth book, “The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus,” will reach his broadest audience yet. While he previously tried to make the case for progressive Christianity, this new work takes a somewhat different approach. “This book is meant to continue that conversation, but make […]
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Telling his side
Former Oklahoma Gov. David Hall, who served time in prison after his term in office, has penned a new memoir of his life. Although he writes in “Twisted Justice: A Memoir of Conspiracy and Personal Politics” that he’s forgiven his supposed tormentors — the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted him, several reporters for The Daily […]