Leigh Haber
Contributing Writer at Freelance
Editor, Writer, Book Nerd, Mother, Grandmother. Ran Oprah’s Book Club for a decade. Now’s a whole new chapter.
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latimes.com | Leigh Haber
Wally Lamb’s first novel in nine years, “The River Is Waiting,” opens with a devastating scene in which a troubled but devoted stay-at-home dad spikes his coffee with two splashes of Captain Morgan and pops an Ativan before getting into a car to drive his two-year-olds, Niko and Maisie, to their grandmother’s.
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flipboard.com | Leigh Haber
4 hours ago“Ghosts of Iron Mountain,” “Turning to Birds,” “The Imagined Life,” and “My Name Is Emilia del Valle.” Ghosts of Iron Mountain, by Phil Tinline (Scribner). In 1967, a top-secret government report stating that achieving peace “would almost certainly not be in the best interests of a stable society” …
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the.ink | Anand Giridharadas |Leigh Haber |Abdul El-Sayed
We just got off another truly inspiring Live conversation, this time with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who’s running for Senate in Michigan, and with our own Leigh Haber, who’s heading up the brand-new Ink Book Club. And both conversations focused on how to stand up to Trump — not just by fighting against his regime, but by building community, and engaging in the kind of radically empathetic acts that let us build the America that could and should be.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Leigh Haber
The question haunting Joan Didion’s “Notes to John” is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited reflections (including parental doubts) to be shared with readers. Joan Didion’s persona has loomed as large as her literary canon. That photograph of her holding a cigarette just so, daring the camera to reveal what she’s thinking, says it all: You will be unable to find the key to the puzzle that is me.
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washingtonpost.com | Leigh Haber
‘The Float Test’ is a family drama threaded with foreboding (washingtonpost.com) ‘The Float Test’ is a family drama threaded with foreboding By Leigh Haber 2025042116464200 Lynn Steger Strong's exquisitely written fourth novel, "The Float Test," is a piercing portrait of the Kenner clan, whose many conflicts recall that famous line from "Anna Karenina": "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." After their mother — a fearless lawyer and demanding parent — dies of a stroke while out...
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Gisèle Pelicot is a hero https://t.co/TCuWr35epu via @YouTube
She is AWESOME. The Book Industry Study Group named Sourcebooks founder and CEO Dominique Raccah the recipient of its Sally Dedecker Award. Source: https://t.co/7Fh2naEwhf Shared via the Google app https://t.co/lVfJ8sNdyS
Fascinating!! Agree totally. Why Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint Won’t Require Blurbs Anymore https://t.co/MJWFAdgdnI via @publisherswkly
