Over the past few months news media have overflowed with discussions about our right to exercise personal freedoms in the United States. This week, national Banned Books Week reminds us to recognize one of our […]
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is a novel of ideas, not action. Unlike Lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman moves slowly, and what little action there is appears […]
Good stories start on the day that was different. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver starts on a day that is so different for Dellarobia Turnbow, she initially doesn’t know what’s happened to her, not in […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any event notices, but I can’t overlook the Baltimore Book Festival coming up this weekend, September 26-28. The festival is temporarily relocating to the Baltimore Inner Harbor this […]
Ever since I read about a computer model developed by researchers at Stony Brook University to predict the success of novels based solely on writing style, I’ve been pondering why this study upsets me so. […]
What are you looking forward to in 2014? A vacation? A birthday? A wedding? The possibilities are many, and anticipation is half the fun. Although they may not have the glamour of a vacation, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Baltimore Book Festival, eagerly anticipated by writers and book lovers alike, is coming to town September 27-29. Since I moved to the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area six years ago, I’ve attended the festival every year […]
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 […]
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