Book Talk: Carcaterra Takes ‘The Godfather’ Global
Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of “The Wolf” (2014, 310 pages in paperback format), is something of an enigma. His “Tin Badges,” reviewed Oct. 4, 2023, is built around a simple plot, much like an episode of a TV series. “The Wolf” is a whole different animal. Whereas Tin Badges is basically a collection of domestic scenes, […]
A voice from the list
It has been more than 20 years since Leon Leyson first began to tell me his heartbreaking story. I met him through a teaching colleague, who lived near him in Fullerton, and informed me that Leyson was one of the Jews who was saved from the Nazi death camps by Oskar Schindler. At the time, […]