Chris Bohjalian: The WD Interview 2021 writersdigest.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from writersdigest.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published June 25, 2021 at 2:36 PM CDT Listen • 24:32
/
Dive into a good beach read this summer with recommendations from two local librarians, Jen Ohzourk and Jennifer Alexander.
What makes a good summer read? For St. Louis Public Library regional branch manager Jen Ohzourk, it’s a book that is captivating, escapist, and easy to put down and pick back up again later perhaps after a swim or bike ride.
On Friday’s
St. Louis on the Air, Ohzourk and St. Louis County Library Collection Development Specialist Jennifer Alexander shared their favorite beach reads.
JEN OHZOURK S PICKS:
“Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake” by Alexis J. Hall (2021) “If you like watching The Great British Baking Show and wonder about the real lives of contestants, this quick-paced, fun romance is for you! Single mum Rosaline is competing each week and also falling for another contestant, Alain. However, fellow baker Harry may be just the friend she needs.”
Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 08.36 EDT
Even a man as implacably opposed to lockdown as Van Morrison â who spent 2020 releasing songs rubbishing science as âcrooked factsâ, mocking people for wearing masks and describing the government as âfascist bulliesâ while also invoking the Berlin Wall â might be forced to concede it had its advantages. After all, it gave him the time to write the material for Latest Record Project Volume 1, a 28-song, two-hour-plus opus that allows him to set out his latterday worldview more fully than any previous work.
Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 album cover
Morrisonâs longstanding sense of distrust â the result of some dubious contracts he signed in the 1960s â long ago calcified into a