The Best of NPR Books 5-8

This week, Larry McMurtry on why Wyatt Earp was a bum, Diane Keaton on turtlenecks, and Roz Chast remembers her parents.  Plus, the fabulous life of Jessye Norman, and a small bookstore in New York City adapts and survives. View this email in your browser update preferences

Author Interviews Larry McMurtry Loves The West, But Knocks The Cowboy Off His High Horse The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist says the myth of the cowboy feels "hollow." The Last Kind Words Saloon is a spare and unsentimental story about two Western icons, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Read this story Book News & Features A Film And Fashion Icon On Aging, And The Power Of Turtlenecks Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton's new memoir, Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty, tackles classic menswear, her insecurities about aging, and the new places she's learned to look for beauty. Read this story Author Interviews Why Bring Up Death When We Could Talk About 'Something More Pleasant'? In her illustrated memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast describes being an only child and conflicted caretaker to her aging parents. Read this story Music Articles The 'Marvelous Living' Of Soprano Jessye Norman One of the most celebrated voices of her generation talks about her new autobiography, Stand Up Straight and Sing! The opera star journeyed from the segregated South to a divided Berlin and beyond. Read this story Book News & Features One NYC Indie Bookstore Survives By Being Small And Specialized As bookstores both large and small close across the country, Posman Books, a niche-focused, nimble bookseller, is about to open its fourth store in Manhattan. Read this story

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