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I Couldn’t Love You More, Jillian Medoff -
Guest Butler Gretl Claggett is a writer, speaker and activist with a mission to help others create more authentic lives.
Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan made his reputation with ten shortish books, then zoomed to the zenith of English novelists with the 368-page Atonement.
Ian McEwan: Saturday - Ian McEwan is England's best living novelist. Pretty much everyone in England agrees.
Ian McEwan: The Comfort of Strangers - Atonement was the high point.
Saturday was a good idea, but the last half is ludicrous --- a Lifetime movie plot.
Identity Theory, Peter Temple - I loathe thrillers.
I've had to read a few in order to interview their authors, and not one has done anything but depress me.
If I Stay, Gayle Forman - It started with Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project. She loved reading children’s books and wondered if other adults did t
In the King's Arms, Sonia Taitz - The wheels of justice grind slow.
“In the King’s Arms” has just been published, but Sonia Taitz wrote it twenty-five years ago
In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey Ratner - I used to think physical torture was the worst that could happen.
Inside Moves, Todd Walton - E-MAIL FROM TODD WALTON: A new edition of "Inside Moves" will be published in Spring of 2013, with an introduction by Sh
Istanbul Passage, Joseph Kanon - A brilliant editor told me that the best time to start reporting a big story is after everyone else is finished.
It Might Have Been What He Said, Eden Collinsworth - Isabel Simpson can't say she wasn't warned.
J.D. Salinger - “The greatest mind ever to stay in prep school,” Norman Mailer said of him, and for a lot of people, that's pretty much the line on Sa
Jackpot, Tsipi Keller - Do you know the novels of Jean Rhys? So many don't. And that's criminal --- Rhys was one of the greatest storytellers of the last century.
James Salter -
Lucky me --- most of the writers I revere are dead.
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime - James Salter labors under a curse.
He’s considered a “writer’s writer” --- that is, too good for the masses to appreciate.
James Salter: All That Is - "A major literary event."
That’s the phrase for any novel by James Salter, and especially “All That Is.” First, because Sa
James Salter: Last Night - Philip married Adele on a day in June. It was cloudy and the wind was blowing. Later the sun came out.
James Salter: Last Night (Take 2) - Writing about “A Christmas Carol,” I noted that “books change over time.”
In the case of the classic Dickens story, I meant 1
James Salter: Light Years - Joe Fox, a legendary editor at Random House, was once asked which of the books he worked on would be called “great” long after their rev
Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson - "Jesus’ Son” is one of the ten funniest books I've ever read.
A guy has a knife stuck in his eye; a drugged-out hospital orderly save