Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for October 23, 2013.
Elissa Schappell reviews 'Quiet Dell,' by Jayne Anne Phillips
[Our thanks to guest reviewer Elissa Schappell, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls and Use Me.]
Jayne Anne Phillips is a dangerous writer. Fearless in her writing and fearless in the territory she stakes out, a vast shadowland populated by people young and old in the grips of obsession, seeking comfort, love, salvation.
In her …
David Laskin: Journalist Turns Geneologist
Journalist David Laskin has spent his career researching other people's stories, but it wasn't until he got talking to his mother a couple of years ago that he realized the best story was the one right in front of him.
The descendant of Jewish immigrants from the western fringe of what was then Russia, Laskin traced three distinct branches of his far-flung family, branches that spread…
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