Helen’s new life is driving her crazy. The rooms in the retirement home seem to grow smaller every day, and she’s plagued with unexplainable headaches. She misses the land she used to live on and […]
One of my favorite ways to celebrate Christmas is to lose myself in a great Christmas short story. No later than December 15 each year, I set aside whatever I’m currently reading and turn all […]
When I write fiction, I always start with place. Not consciously, actually, but I know my stories are going to take place in the South, usually in a small town in the South, because that’s […]
Ah, autumn. A beautiful season made even better by book festivals taking place around the United States. This year I was fortunate to attend two book festivals, one in Brooklyn and one in Baltimore. Both […]
Although the cover copy on Abraham Verghese’s lush novel, Cutting for Stone, implies that the story is about twin brothers, it’s really not. Instead, it’s an intense, provocative look at one of those brothers and […]
I’ve always thought that if you want to be as smart as you can be you need a solid liberal arts education. I’m not knocking math, science, business, medicine—all those schools of knowledge that enable […]
After spending a week at Long Beach Island, New Jersey, I’ve been thinking about what makes a book good for reading at the beach or at the mountains or at any other vacation site. Too […]
Today I started my day writing a review of a novel for Goodreads. As I wrote, I began thinking about why we write reviews and critiques of books. What’s the true purpose of critical writing? […]
I hope many of you watched the video chat about Holland Taylor’s play “Ann” on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s “Off the Sidelines” website Monday night. It was a terrific discussion. Gillibrand and Taylor were joined by […]
When Ann Richards was 11 years old, she moved from a small town in Texas to San Diego, where she found herself for the first time in a classroom with children of all races, colors, […]
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