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June 21, 2013

Theater: “Anything Goes”

Now, that’s entertainment. I suppose that was the point back in 1934 when this Cole Porter musical first appeared, and that’s the point now….

June 18, 2013

I will probably never be a best-selling author. I might not ever be published by one of the big publishing houses. That’s okay. I’d…

June 18, 2013

I’m honored to have been invited by Patricia Ann McNair to participate in The Writer’s Handful, a series of brief interviews running on her…

June 15, 2013

My theater binge continues. For tonight’s show, I trekked up to Bethesda–not exactly a hardship, since my hotel is close to…

June 14, 2013

I seem to have developed a renewed interest in the theater. Years ago, in graduate school, I read a lot of drama, although I…

June 10, 2013

“Brotherly Love” by Jhumpa Lahiri We learn from the Q&A with Jhumpa Lahiri that “Brotherly Love” is an excerpt from Lahiri’s new novel, forthcoming…

June 10, 2013

I recently had business in North Carolina and was invited to participate in a gathering at the home of Marjorie Hudson, author of the…

June 3, 2013

One of the oddest things about publishing and promoting a book is giving interviews. I’ve given several over the course of the last four…

May 21, 2013

I confess that I haven’t yet read this book, but I read Shafak’s previous book, The Bastard of Istanbul, which was excellent. Here’s the description…

May 15, 2013

We Don’t Get a Do-over (Except When We Do) by Valerie Nieman Time is an arrow, right? Fired into the future, never to return….