hitting the books
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Born Standing Up”
Would you like to sit down and have a conversation with Steve Martin about his life in comedy? Just read...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Way of the Writer”
At the urging of editor Pete Kerzel and videographer Olivia Witherite of MASNsports.com, who for reasons only they can explain...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Bully Pulpit”
As a presidential historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin is at the top of the list. Her works have that magical quality...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Road Not Taken”
For years, there is a book that has come and gone from the nightstand, but is never very far gone....
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s”
“Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s,” a collection of six classic, hard-to-pigeonhole masterpieces, is writing that again...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Battle Cry of Freedom”
I took “Battle Cry of Freedom” by James McPherson on a recent road trip to again browse chapters that most...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders”
“Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders” by Dick Lammers has been a book of summer. I have picked it up and put it...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “A Just and Generous Nation”
Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle’s “A Just and Generous Nation” is yet another look at President Abraham Lincoln’s times and...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “A Just and Generous Nation”
Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle’s “A Just and Generous Nation” is yet another look at President Abraham Lincoln’s times and...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Age of Innocence”
“It was the old New York way of taking a life ‘without effusion of blood’: the way of people who...