Frank Warren will be at Bookpeople to promote his newest curated work, Confessionss On Life, Death, And God. He will likely taking a roundtable-type discussion on the topic this Saturday, December 12th at 3pm. PLUS, he will likely be reading secrets from locals, as Bookpeople has a collection box going right now, and Frank will be handed this box, from which to pick secrets to read during the event! There will likely be a signing line, as is often the case for these things, so it would be prudent to get on BP’s list at 9am, per the rules. more ›

Luckily Karr has succeeded in making Lit just as readable for a secular audience as her previous volumes. In an interview with Terry Gross, Karr herself compares her earliest drafts as a recent convert to the rhetoric of late-night televangelists—an interesting comparison considering how readily she admits to doing it all for the money. But through great care and diligent editing, the final product is thankfully more Anne Lamott than Joel Osteen. more ›