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Ken Valenti covers trains, planes and automobiles - not to mention buses and ferries - for Westchester and Putnam. He's been a reporter with The Journal News and its forerunners more than 20 years and has covered all four corners of Westchester County.
E-mail Ken Valenti at klvalent@lohud.com
We who have worked for a long, long (ok, very long) time here at The Journal News were pleasantly surprised recently to receive a package with a new novel written by an former colleague.
It’s called Pieces of Happily Ever After, and it’s written by Irene Zutell, who once covered the police beat and the usual [...]
I admit, I hadn’t heard much — anything, really — about women writing pulp fiction until the Brooklyn Book Festival last Sunday, where I found a book by an author lauded on the cover as “the Queen of Noir.”
Dorothy B. Hughes was her name, and the book is The Blackbirder, about a woman with a [...]
I have to be careful what I say. Edwidge Dandicat may be reading this.
The author of Krik? Krak! and Breath, Eyes, Memory was a highlight of the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, which
The Brooklyn Book Festival is just days away, and among the writers there will be Edwidge Dandicatt, Pete Hamill, Lewis Lapham on Oliver Sacks.
Others include
Prince Valiant, the comic strip knight who weilds the Singing Sword, is getting some new attention with the release of a collection of his earliest adventures.
But, while Valiant serves as one of King Arthur’s Round Table knights, he was at the center of a notorious crime here in Westchester in the more modern era of [...]
In the new children’s book, Harry and Horsie, the hero (that would be Harry) is a local guy, son of a somewhat noteworthy personality.
The real-life Harry is the son of David Letterman, and, because we just love making local references here at The Journal News/lohud.com, custom requires that I tell you Letterman is a North [...]
The winner of the “2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award” is a local guy. Sort of.
James King, author of the upcoming Bill Warrington’s Last Chance lives in Wilton, Conn., but he wrote much of the novel while enrolled in the graduate writing program at Manhattanville College in Purchase.
Full disclosure here: I know Jim. I attended
[...]I’m going to bring Italo Calvino into our discussion, which you can see here, about when to buy books and when to borrow them from the library.
It happens that I’ve just started reading some Calvino, the Italian author. (The back of one book jacket calls im “Italy’s most brilliant modern writer.” He lived from 1923 [...]
I own too many books.
I was raised by parents who lived through The Great Depression and who therefore scrutinized every purchase, a skill that’s suddenly in vogue again.
For me, then, books have always been a guilty purchase. After all, doesn’t the library have enough to read?
And yet, I do buy books.
So we’re starting a debate [...]
If you don’t know about The Onion, the satirical newspaper and news Web site, I highly recommend becoming acquainted with it.
Check out this recent article on the site that takes a shot at The Brothers Karamazov, or,
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