RollnSmoke Literary Cafe

WHITE MUGHALS by William Daltymple (Penguin, 2004) This long, dense and massively notated historical narrative is set primarily in Hydera...

KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST by Adam Hochschild (Mariner Books, 1999) Even as the slave trade began in the 15th century, the interior of The Cong...

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg (Little Brown, 2010). This debut memoir by an emerging New York literary agent recounts ...

Room by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown, 2010) Written from the point of view of a five-year-old boy, this highly acclaimed novel tells the st...

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (Twelve, 2008) Described as “one grump’s search for the happiest places in the world,” foreign corresp...