When the time came to nail down details about the candy business for her fifth novel, “True Confections” (Shaye Areheart), Katharine Weber knew exactly where she had to go: Chicago. Each spring at ...

With her fifth novel, "True Confections," Katharine Weber has concocted a sly and playful book, starting with that title. It tells the story of the Ziplinskys, a candy-making dynasty caked with ...

Katharine Weber is one of the wittiest, most stimulating novelists at work today. In works of fiction as funny as they are fundamentally serious, beginning with “Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than ...

Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky, the antiheroine and narrator of Katharine Weber's wickedly funny new novel, True Confections, has a voice so incisive and tart that as soon as I finished reading the book I ...

In her novel "True Confections" (Broadway Books), Katharine Weber creates a fictional New Haven candy company in such detail that you would swear the factory, the people who work there, and the ...

ASHEVILLE - Farewell to flaky scones, seasonal pie and chocolate mousse beckoning from the case at True Confections. The bakery and coffee shop, a Grove Arcade fixture for more than 16 years, ...

WHEN Forrest Gump proclaimed, “Life is like a box of chocolates,” he wasn’t referring to the sophisticated confections in this city. While imported chocolate from all over the world has been pleasing ...

Katharine Weber has a way with historical fiction. She brilliantly dramatized the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in “Triangle.” She brought us into the worlds of art history and Vermeer in “The Music Lesson ...