Giveaway Monday: The Art Forger
May 20, 2013
Tomorrow is its official publication day, but The Art Forger is already climbing up the paperback bestseller lists — #6 on IndieBound’s list, #5 on the Boston Globe’s list. And today is …
December 30, 2010
Nailing the New Year’s Resolution by Caroline Leavitt
First let me say that a New Year’s resolution was my absolute last resort. For years I’d been trying to stop biting my nails, a habit that seemed encoded in my DNA …
December 29, 2010
Jewish Christmas Eve Lasagna by Lauren Grodstein
Because nobody thought to tell me otherwise, I believed in Santa Claus until I was eleven. This is not because I was a particularly gullible child, I don’t think – it’s just …
December 28, 2010
Another Late Christmas by Joseph Skibell
Last week in group therapy, people were complaining about the upcoming holidays. It was the seventh day of Hanukkah – that night, we’d be lighting the menorah for the last night – …
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December 27, 2010
O Christmas Tree by Jill McCorkle
It’s the week between Christmas and New Years. The joy and excitement (and stress) of Christmas are over, but the decorations can still be left alone. For now, at least. The New …
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December 21, 2010
What We’re Reading: At Home: A History of Private Life
I am the unlikeliest person to be reading this book, for three reasons: 1) as anyone who knows me well can report, I have a certain deficiency in the housekeeping department; 2) …
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December 20, 2010
Booksellers Rock! Rob Dougherty, Clinton Book Shop
What books recently rocked my world: Nothing Left To Burn by Jay Varner (suck-up alert), Room by Emma Donoghue, Innocent Monster by Reed Farrel Coleman, and Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. …
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December 17, 2010
Christmas Week: Recipes from Bill Smith and Camille Glenn
Christmas Day is now just ten days away, prompting me to reconsider just how much time I have to do all my holiday shopping. I mean, even if I had the money …
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December 16, 2010
Christmas Week: A story from Lee Smith
Today we have the story “House Tour” from Lee Smith‘s most recent collection, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. In this brilliant gem of a story, a woman is completely unaware that …
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