Books: "Yet Here I Am" By Jonathan Capehart

 

Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home

By Jonathan Capehart

Grand Central Publishing; hardcover, 272 pages; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, May 20th

Jonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and a co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC. Capehart is an Associate Editor at the Washington Post, where he also writes an opinion column, and he is an analyst for The PBS News Hour. His career began here in New York with the Daily News, where he was the deputy editorial page editor from 2002-04, and served on the editorial board from 1993-2000. He earned the board a Pulitzer for his editorial campaign in 1999 to save the Apollo Theater.

Books: New Novels From Michael McGarrity & Amita Murray

 

Night in the City

By Michael McGarrity

W.W. Norton & Company; hardcover, 272 pages; $28.99; available today, Tuesday, May 20th

Michael McGarrity is the author of the nationally best-selling Kevin Kerney crime novels, which he concluded in Head Wounds, the acclaimed American West trilogy, and his recent novel, The Long Ago.

NYCFC Takes First Hudson River Derby Of Season

 

The scene after the final whistle. Photo by Jason Schott.

New York City Football Club was victorious in the first Hudson River Derby of the season, as they shutout the Red Bulls, 2-0, on Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 30,804 at Citi Field.

Books: "Lollapaolooza" By Bienstock & Beaujour

Lollapaolooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival

By Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour

St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 432 pages; $32.00

Richard Beinstock is the former senior editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He is the author of several books, including Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, and he co-authored Nothin' But a Good Time with Tom Beaujour. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and SPIN.

NYCFC Faces Gridlock In DC

 

NYCFC goalkeeper Matt Freese looks on. Photo provided by NYCFC.

If you're going to watch a New York City Football Club game this season, you have to figure there will be a clean sheet.

MLB Decision Could Pave Way For Pete Rose To Go Into Hall Of Fame

 

Photo by Jason Schott.

On Tuesday, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made a monumental decision regarding whether Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and other players who have been on the permanently ineligible list.

Books: New Novels & Poetry

We are in the heart of spring, a perfect time of year to curl up with a book outside, and in this review we will look at two new novels, Marble Hall Murders, by Anthony Horowitz; and The Marriage Rule, by Helen Monks Takhar; and a thoughtful book of poetry by Josie Balka, I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living.