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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
I keep checking the Web site for the Brooklyn Book Festival to see who will show up this year.
Well, it’s exactly a month away — Sunday, Sept. 13 is the big day — and still, nothing.
I love the Brooklyn Book Festival. They not only get some good writers — Joan Dideon, Dave
If you’d gone to the Barnes & Noble book store at Union Square park in Manhattan last night, you would have seen The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini author Pat Conroy confessing that he knows nothing about women.
That was one topic that came up when he and Richard Russo, author of Nobody’s Fool [...]
I hate to take advantage, but what the heck? As a rewards member of Borders Books & Music, I get their coupons e-mailed to me constantly.
I can’t help but notice that, while I used to get coupons for 15 or 25 percent off. More and more, it seems, the coupons are coming for 40 percent [...]
I came across one off-hand comment in Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery with which many readers of this blog can agree, I’m sure.
The book is Saint-Exupery’s memoir of his days as a mail pilot in the early days of flight.
Describing an evening when he was a guest in a strange
I always have to have what I call a “summer city book.” That’s a book that is small enough for me to fit in one of the pockets in my shorts so I don’t have to carry extra baggage.
Because Metro-North trains and the subway are good places to get in
I realized what’s been bugging me about the Harry Potter movies and later books when I was picking up a decaf at Starbucks in Larchmont. At the counter, they were selling jelly beans with flavors like lemon and pomegranate, and I thought: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans.
Not just the magical jelly beans, of course. It’s [...]
I picked up The Atlantic magazine’s 2009 fiction issue, with stories by the likes of Rick Bass and Paul Theroux and essays by Tim O’Brien, Alice Sebold, Margaret Atwood and others.
Not a bad showing. (If you haven’t read Tim O’Brien’s
AP reports that Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis. The 78-year-old writer’s brother says he’s unlikely to survive.
This reminds me of the rumors of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s failing health and likely demise that began about a decade ago. With McCourt, however, the word comes not from unspecified rumors, but from the [...]
This from the Associated Press:
MOSCOW (AP) — Vasily Aksyonov, a Russian writer and one of the last dissidents to be exiled from the Soviet Union, died Monday. He was 76.
Aksyonov, who suffered a stroke last year, died at a Moscow hospital, his widow Maya told Ekho Mosvky radio.
Aksyonov wrote more than 20 novels during a [...]
Did you know that a piece of New Rochelle history (or maybe the city’s pre-history) is mentioned right there in the first sentence of The Three Musketeers?
Here’s the sentence from the Alexandre Dumas novel, courtesy of the Web site QuotesandPoem.Com:
“On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in [...]
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