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Poe in Philadelphia & Elsewhere

Tara and I were in and around Philadelphia for the weekend — and we’re still celebrating both of the Phillies’ […]

Textbook publishers Wadsworth Cengage Learning have a 2009 collection that offers a quick survey of some American writers once popular

Eleanor Davis, aspiring actress, slightly modified her first name the moment she set foot on campus at Brown: “Eleonora,” she

Friend, colleague and fine writer Helon Habila won the top honor in fiction at the 11th annual Library of Virginia

What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, a common text for creative writing workshops,

I’ve been reading and re-reading lately some old Ross Macdonald novels. One of my two copies of 1958’s The Doomsters

My review of Katherine Neville’s The Fire will be published on Sunday, October 19, in the Washington Post, but through the

Today’s L.A. Times features Sarah Weinman’s review of Leonard Cassuto’s Hard-Boiled Sentimentality (a review linked directly here and through her

Several short items about North Carolina literature here. This Sunday, October 19, is the biennial induction ceremony for the North

The cover story of the October issue of Metro Magazine remembers Robert Ruark, a North Carolina writer who became a

Catching up again from three states away (or four, depending on how you drive): I’m very excited to hear that

Even missing the festivities surrounding this year’s Bouchercon, I was extremely pleased to hear that Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas