The closer we get to the actual holidays, the slimmer the pickings in readings and signings. In North Carolina, the…
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Popular Vs. Literary Again (and Again)
An article in this morning’s Washington Post (Dec. 16) explored the question of whether the Newbery Medal, the world’s oldest…
Continue reading →Debut Novelist Kate Betterton Talks About Fiction, Family, Death, and Life After Death
Kate Betterton’s novel Where the Lake Becomes the River won the 2008 Novello Literary Award, an annual contest for writers…
Continue reading →Mystery Scene Interviews Donna Andrews — Plus Holiday Gift Guides and Contagious Hair-Pulling
I just received the new issue of Mystery Scene, and was pleased to see Donna Andrews on the cover. Andrews…
Continue reading →Kate Betterton On Civil Rights Era Mississippi, Alan Cheuse On Photographer Edward Curtis, Plus Other Upcoming Events
Kate Betterton‘s first novel, Where the Lake Becomes the River — set largely in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era — won…
Continue reading →The Creative Habit
Among the award recipients at this past weekend’s Kennedy Center Honors was dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp, maybe most widely…
Continue reading →An Interview with Porter Shreve
A native of Washington D.C. and now the director of the Creative Writing Program at Purdue University, Porter Shreve is…
Continue reading →Historical Usage of Derogatory Slang
Ostriches bury their heads in the sand. In the midst of all the current publishing upheaval (explored elsewhere better than…
Continue reading →It’s Not Just That I’m Sick Of Cats…
…but I’ve been reading and rereading a few mystery stories about dogs recently — specifically the kind that don’t bark.…
Continue reading →Allan Gurganus Reads “A Fool For Christmas” — Plus Other Upcoming Events
As part of my various jobs, I serve two large communities. In my home state of North Carolina, for example,…
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