UP THE MEKONG TO ANGKOR WAT — DAYS 1& 2 (Feb.23 -24)
If ever I’d been made an offer I couldn’t refuse, it was the one that popped up in my inbox several months ago. Lindblad/National Geographic Tours asked me to be guest speaker on a 12-day “expedition” up the Mekong River through Vietnam...Some Rise by Sin Publishers Weekly review
A fine pre-publication review of the new novel, SOME RISE BY SIN, in the most recent issue of Publishers Weekly: Expanding on several of the themes of his 2009 novel Crossers, Caputo’s latest is a thought-provoking story of unthinkable brutality. Former art history...SOME RISE BY SIN/advance reviews
Here is a link to a 5-star review from Booklist and a somewhat mixed advance review from Kirkus, call it a 3-star. Kirkus will publish it on March 1st. I don’t think the novel is as predictable as the reviewer states, but then I’m biased. Booklist first:...Some Rise By Sin Library Journal review
Full text of Library Journal pre-pub review: Library Journal 2 1 17Book Jacket
Click here a link to the book jacket for SomeRisebySin_Pass2, then click on the linkHEADS UP
A nice advance notice for SOME RISE BY SIN in Library Journal: http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2016/11/prepub/picks/caputo-chevalier-russo-up-and-coming-segal-barbaras-fiction-picksmay-2017-pt-4/SHOCK & AWE
I was surprised by the results of Tuesday’s election, but in all honesty not shocked, and certainly less than awed. That reaction wasn’t due to any extraordinary powers on my part but to the fact that I travel the country quite a lot, I listen to people, I...PODCAST/ESQUIRE CLASSICS
Philip Caputo joins host David Brancaccio to discuss William Styron’s greatness as a writer and his struggle against depression.
VIETNAM-CAMBODIA-MEKONG RIVER
The link below gives an overview of the February/March 2017 expedition to Vietnam and Cambodia, and the voyage on the Mekong River. (See my July 13 post.) I will be giving three speeches, one in Saigon at a “literary salon” in the former residence of...
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