Skip to contentMoira Macdonald | The Seattle Times (TNS)Fall reading has officially begun! Let’s all assemble, on our respective armchairs and with our respective favorite beverages, and devour a book or two. Should you be in need of something fresh, here are a handful of brand-new paperbacks. Happy reading!“Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2022” by Margaret Atwood (Knopf, $19). This is the third essay collection from the Booker Prize- winning author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Testaments” and numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction. In it, she reflects on the...…Skip to contentMoira Macdonald | The Seattle Times (TNS)Fall reading has officially begun! Let’s all assemble, on our respective armchairs and with our respective favorite beverages, and devour a book or two. Should you be in need of something fresh, here are a handful of brand-new paperbacks. Happy reading!“Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2022” by Margaret Atwood (Knopf, $19). This is the third essay collection from the Booker Prize- winning author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Testaments” and numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction. In it, she reflects on the...WW…

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has a fourth chance at the Triple Crown. He will saddle American Pharoah, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes in Elmont, N.Y.It takes a minute or so to walk from the racetrack at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., to the barns in back.Through the parking lot and down a dirt path, the man with the shock of white hair and ostrich-skin cowboy boots waves at everyone who calls his name. People want to shake his hand and congratulate him. They all say pretty much the same thing.Just one more win.Belmont Stakes show, 1:30...…Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has a fourth chance at the Triple Crown. He will saddle American Pharoah, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes in Elmont, N.Y.It takes a minute or so to walk from the racetrack at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., to the barns in back.Through the parking lot and down a dirt path, the man with the shock of white hair and ostrich-skin cowboy boots waves at everyone who calls his name. People want to shake his hand and congratulate him. They all say pretty much the same thing.Just one more win.Belmont Stakes show, 1:30...WW…