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Aren't you Supposed to be Writing? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Sharon Wildwind Of course I’m supposed to be writing. I’ve got only chapters left to write before my next book is finished, but I’ve been waylaid by what was once called the dog days of summer. Too h...
For the Boy Who Has Everything 26 Aug 2013 | 05:41 pm
by Julia Buckley My youngest son turned fifteen yesterday; this is an interesting birthday, because I can no longer take care of his presents by simply buying a slew of Batman toys. Now I have to co...
The Value of Libraries 24 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
by Jeri Westerson My library. Of course I knew this. Libraries are for far more than checking out your library books. They have certainly served as a platform for me to do events and garner more rea...
Touching the Past 23 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
by Sheila Connolly A few weeks ago I bought a huge lot of antique cookware at a local auction. When I walked into the preview, I saw the table full of implements, some familiar, some still unexplain...
Quail Hill Farm 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Elizabeth Zelvin On a sunny day last week, a friend took me to visit a place I’ve passed by thousands of times in the past twenty years and always wanted to see: Quail Hill, a farm cooperative in Ama...
Does crime fiction contribute to violence? 21 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
By Sandra Parshall Benjamin LeRoy, publisher of the independent press Tyrus Books, worries that the hardboiled crime fiction he publishes may be contributing to gratuitous violence in American society...
How much a difference could 5 years make? 20 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Sharon Wildwind I read a historical mystery recently that felt vaguely out-of-focus. I couldn’t put my finger on why until I happened upon an author interview. He said that he’d appropriated several ...
Panther Turns One 18 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
by Julia Buckley This was Panther's professional shelter picture. "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine." So said Prospero in Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST, claiming the detestable Caliban. I use...
Fonts 16 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
by Sheila Connolly Recently I read that New York City will be changing the font on its street signs from Highway Gothic (which it has used since the beginning of city highways) to something called Cl...
Habits for the 21st Century 15 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
Elizabeth Zelvin I’ve been thinking about things that everybody used to do that no one does any more. Or do they? How about reading in the bathroom? When I was growing up in the 1950s, most literate ...
