Clay Smith
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The last time we heard about Karla Faye Tucker, she was being executed; now, almost four years later, there’s a new novel about her. Or about someone very like her. And Beverly Lowry’s classic Crossed Over, a memoir about getting to know Karla Faye Tucker, gets a reissue.
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Not one day back from vacation and the growing list of noble souls who need to be congratulated is making Books Editor Clay Smith uneasy.
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Edmund Morris’ ‘Theodore Rex’
Edmund Morris was spanked by critics in 1999 for introducing a fictional contemporary of Ronald Reagan’s in Dutch to help explain the trajectory of that president’s life. Now the second volume of Morris’ study of Theodore Roosevelt has been published, and it’s apparent all over again why he is one of the nation’s best biographers.
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Photojournalist Shepard Sherbell’s visual record of the end of the USSR and Gerald Duff’s new novel set on the Gulf Coast
