Some books are like sliding into a hot tub. Others are like wading into a cold swimming pool.  And a few are like being tossed off a...

In the Book I’m Reading is a book of very short stories. I hope millions of people discover it and enjoy it as much as I have. The book...

Thank you, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky for coming to do a workshop and reading in Lynchburg, VA! It was truly heart-warming to see the group...

Mary Kane’s short story collection, In the Book I’m Reading, is genuinely unique, a distinction I give to few books I’ve read. Each of...

I recently completed a young adult novel, In the Outside, and am beginning the process of introducing the book to the world, also known...

Hey, America. Let’s turn off the television, postpone our Twitter fix, ignore for a time political diatribes, and read The Prophets, the...

I came to My Brilliant Friend because my sister had read it, and said she wanted to talk with someone about it. I haven’t read the rest...

Little Hours by Lil Copan is that rare novel for which the last page leads directly back to the first. There was no sense of relief when...

I recently came across a long-ago notebook entry in which I named Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert as one of my heroes. I have no memory of...

Some people love books. Physical, cardboard-glue-and-paper books. They love the dedications on the fly-page from parents when they were...

It's a snow day! Not that it matters anymore, since we don't have kids in school, and we are at home anyway every day. But it's a snow...

If you’re trying to decide how to best help aging loved ones, read Iza’s Ballad by Hungarian novelist, Magda Szabó. You won’t find any...

My first read of the new year and decade is Julian Fellowes’ Belgravia (The Orion Publishing Group, U.S. edition 2016). Yes, that Julian...

Here’s the final installment about my experience at The High Road Festival of Poetry and Short Fiction last week. The third class I...

Here’s the continuation I promised about the High Road Festival of Poetry and Short Fiction sponsored by Press 53. While I had attended...

I drove to Winston-Salem, North Carolina last Friday to attend the High Road Festival of Poetry and Short Fiction sponsored by Press 53....

How could I pass up an article in the New York Times explaining how books are chosen for the 88-branch New York City library system? The...

Procrastination is a deadening practice in any field, but for writers it’s a virulent craft-killer. Why? Because hefty percentage of the...

Since plagiarism has recently been in the news, I have been asked several times to define its meaning. What is plagiarism? In teaching...