I was perusing my posts from the last year, trying to decide if I
really feel like making a "best of" list this year and being hard on
myself for all the books I didn't read a...
The most disarming and emotionally poignant art is sometimes the
simplest, the most essential. Such is the case in Figures of Speech
Theatre’s exquisite staging of contempor...
One Direction left the pop-music world the same way they entered it:
clutching each other [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNcqyeQNCE] on
an X Factor U.K. finale, hoping fo...
It's Monday. Michael and I just drove from Dallas to Forrest City
(outside of little Rock, Ark.) then from Arkansas to Nashville. It
rained during the entire 10-hour drive. To...
The right book, it’s said, can change your life. Some books can
alter perceptions of the world, or let a reader see life from a
perspective they may never have considered be...
[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Quzcwb-QAc/VovrUno7R3I/AAAAAAAALD8/NMtdK2OZ558/s1600/81l0mi0poCL._SL1500_.jpg]Wolf
by Wolf
Wolf by Wolf: Book One
Written by Ryan Graudin
Young Ad...
Katherine Zoepf
In September, 2014, Mohra Ferak, twenty-two years old and in her final
year at Dar Al-Hekma University, in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, was
asked for advic...
Or, in which I blather on endlessly about the books I read this year.
Seriously, I like looking at my stats and putting out some genre
favorites that might not have made it in...
In Meet the people who have volunteered to die on Mars
[http://boingboing.net/2015/02/09/meet-the-people-whove-volunt.html],
Walker Lamond writes about the thousands of people...
Dear Fellow Dog Lovers,
*** Happy New Year! ***
This time of year is always a little slower on the adoption front, as
people are caught up in holiday festivities. But even...
Dear Fellow Dog Lovers,
*** Happy New Year! ***
This time of year is always a little slower on the adoption front, as
people are caught up in holiday festivities. But even...
