Argyria: The Life and Adventures of a Silver Woman on Planet Earth, by Rosemary Jacobs. E-book. $6. reviewed by Brad Usatch In Argyria, Long Island native and longtime Orleans County resident Rosemary Jacobs chronicles more than five decades of struggle with a... More »
Flypaper Dreams, by Jay Kendall. 165 pages. Paperback. $13.95 Reviewed by Tena Starr There are both pros and cons involved in self-publishing a book. The pros are that it’s difficult to get a book, even a very good one, published these days through traditional... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 3, 2016 Reviewed by Joseph Gresser Larry Olmsted’s useful and frightening book manages to repeatedly stimulate and quell the reader’s appetite. He highlights some of the finest foods and drinks the world has to offer and explai... More »
copyright the Chronicle August 3, 2016 by Joseph Gresser Annie Get Your Gun is an early product of the golden age of American musical theater. It was first staged in 1946, just a few years after Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, which kicked off an era of mus... More »
copyright the Chronicle March 16, 2016 Galvanized, New and Selected Poems by Leland Kinsey. Published by Green Writers Press, Brattleboro. 381 pages. $24.95 in paperback. Reviewed by Chris Braithwaite As its subtitle suggests, Barton poet Lee Kinsey’s new book... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 16, 2015 Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England, by Christine Hadsel. Published by David R. Godine, Boston, 2015; 188 pages, hardbound, $40.00. reviewed by Joseph Gresser With Suspended Worlds Chri... More »
copyright the Chronicle September 2, 2015 by Paul Lefebvre History as seen in the novels of Jeffrey Lent: In the Fall (542 pages), published in 1999 by Atlantic Monthly Press, and A Slant of Light (357 pages) published in 2015 published by Bloomsbury. To write... More »
copyright the Chronicle June 3, 2015 by Joseph Gresser GLOVER — The Museum of Everyday Life, located in a retired dairy barn just off Route 16 south of Glover Village, opened its fifth season Sunday afternoon in the kind of damp weather that represses the su... More »
copyright the Chronicle May 27, 2015 Island Pond Reflections, by S.J. Campbell. Paperback. 130 pages. Self-published. $19.99. Reviewed by Tena Starr Island Pond Reflections isn’t a scholarly history of Brighton, which has also been known rather charmingly ... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 8, 2015 Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes, 2nd Edition, by Jeffrey Hamelman, illustrations and photography by Chiho Kaneko; Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014; Hardbound, 478 pages; $45. ... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 1, 2015 Shape of the Sky, by Shelagh Connor Shapiro. 242 pages. Paperback. Published by Wind Ridge Books. $15.95. Reviewed by Tena Starr The Northeast Kingdom and rock festivals have a historic relationship, so Shelagh Connor Sh... More »
copyright the Chronicle March 25, 2015 by Natalie Hormilla Martha Oliver-Smith of Albany has written something like a memoir, except it’s not really about herself. The main character of Martha’s Mandala is another Martha, the author’s maternal grandmother, Mar... More »
