From the heart of the American South to the African bush, Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a dazzling collection of essays from Julia Reed, one of America's most engaging and insightful chroniclers.Reed's sharp eye and wit illuminate the high and low of a spectacular era, from her first byline covering the shooting of Dr. Herman Tarnower by headmistress Jean Harris, to profiles of luminaries like Andre Leon Talley, Sister Helen Prejean, President George an...

"Reed recounts with humor [post Katrina] home-improvement nightmares in a story that is part 'Money Pitt' and part love letter to her adopted home town." — Washington Post, Front Page FeatureAfter fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District of New Orleans. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck.Rich with sumptuous details and with the au...

Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America’s greatest chroniclers.In the middle of the night on March eleventh, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to her alma mater, the Madeira School. Her former headmistress, Jean Harris, had just shot Dr. Herman Tarnower, The Scarsdale Diet Doctor. Julia di...

**This program is read by the author.South Toward Home is a wry and humorous audiobook about life and culture in the American South.**In thinking about her native land, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South and in her warmhearted and funny new audiobook, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs...

"[Reed] has compiled here food-focused curiosities sprinkled with a dash of travel, a pinch of sass, and a whole load of recipes." — Publishers WeeklyJulia Reed, a master of the art of eating, drinking, and making merry, takes the reader on culinary adventures in places as far flung as Kabul, Afghanistan and as close to home as her native Mississippi Delta and Florida's Gulf Coast. Along the way, Reed discovers the perfect Pimm's Royale at the Paris Ritz, d...

The humorist celebrates Southern food, Southern women, and the Southern penchant for enjoying good times in this collection of her food writing.In essays on everything from pork chops to the perfect picnic Julia Reed revels in the simple good qualities that make the Southern table the best possible place to pull up a chair. She expounds on:The Southerner's relentless penchant for using gelatinWhy most things taste better with homemade mayonn...

In her essay collection, Reed "blends David Sedaris-like humor with Southern culinary knowledge, then adds a dash of gentility and a pinch of detail " (Washington Independent Review of Books).In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, "It's the juxtapositions that get you down here." These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted ...

What if the world was made of ice cream? Bobby and Kate don't just wonder-they dream it!In We Want ALL the Ice Cream, a visit to the ice cream shop turns into the adventure of a lifetime. Imagine floating on rivers of blue moon ice cream under skies dotted with cotton candy clouds. Picture yourself dodging malt ball boulders and uncovering pirate treasures, all made from ice cream.But every adventure has its challenges. Will Bobby and Kate conquer the seven ice cream challe...

Published in 1981, The Great American Writers Cookbook was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes—and anecdotes—offered by writers of every imaginable stripe, ethnicity, region, and culture in America.Contemporary novelists such as National Book Award winners Jonathan Franzen and the late...

Published in 1981, The Great American Writers Cookbook was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes-and anecdotes-offered by writers of every imaginable stripe, ethnicity, region, and culture in America.Contemporary novelists such as National Book Award winners Jonathan Franzen and the late...

"An utterly charming celebration of the messiness of love, life, and motherhood... every woman deserves a Nick." -- Laurelin Paige, New York Times bestselling author"Heartwarming and intensely emotional, Our Options Have Changed is witty, sexy and hilarious with a heroine you admire and a hero you can't help falling in love with." -- Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling authorHaving it all is a fantasy, right?Chloe Browne knows all about fantasy. Fantasy is he...

If I've learned anything in my twenty-one years, it's how to play it safe. My rules are simple...Don't lose sight of the prize in your last year of college.Don't get distracted by the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas.And don't fall for guys who make you question everything.I've been doing so well, too...until my best friend drags me to a trendy Vegas nightclub to celebrate the beginning of winter break. I might be wearing my sexiest ...