Books & Authors

  • Book review: Transporting readers to world changed by fossil finds

    By Andrew DeMillo

    For generations raised on dinosaur toys, “Jurassic Park” films and characters like Barney, it’s hard to imagine a world where dinos and their fossils didn’t exist — or, more accurately, weren’t discovered yet. That world is exactly where Edward Dolnick takes readers in “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How An Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World.”