Child Magazine Best Book of the Year"For me, parenting is like dieting.??Every day, I wake up filled with resolve and good intentions, perfection in view, and every day I somehow stray from the path.?
Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things C
A poetic memoir by the author of First Comes Love furnishes compelling snapshot portraits of more than fifty individuals who have had a profound influence on her life, includings such colorful charact
"Winik has many gifts as a writer, but one I appreciate the most is her ability to write about the hardest, darkest subjects with a light, knowing hand." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, in praise for
Marion Wink is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death.At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, cult favorites, Glen Rock Book of the Dead and Baltimore Book of t
Rules for the Unruly is a distillation of surprising life wisdom from National Public Radio commentator and writer Marion Winik -- a woman who has seen it all, done it all, and would never exchange h
A cross between Nora Ephron and David Sedaris, longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik has a way of looking at life that’s both relatable and remarkable. Her experience of being single in middle age wil
In her author’s note to the book, Marion Winik writes that in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, people build altars to their loved ones . . . they go to the cemetery and stay all night, pray
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans, her friends shook their heads. For starters, she was straight and
"In the Kitchen explores family life, youth culture, and coming of age. . . . The kitchen is the place in the house where our daily dramas are enacted. It's where, together, we make a mess of