My December Newsletter
My last quarterly newsletter of the year looks back at some highlights and milestones of 2018 and ahead toward new
My last quarterly newsletter of the year looks back at some highlights and milestones of 2018 and ahead toward new
It was fun to see The Literary Hub excerpt my Washington Independent Review of Books review of Leslie Klinger’s latest book—the
I was super-excited when news broke about Leslie Klinger’s latest project: an annotated edition of five key novels of the
You can’t say he didn’t get it honest: Our son Dashiell is both a great reader and a fan of
I first met Jon McGoran when we were both reading at a Noir at the Bar one snowy night in
When I started writing my September newsletter, I thought I didn’t really have any news to share… and then realized
Thanks to Cynthia Kuhn for hosting me as part of her new blog series I Read/I Wrote, where mystery writers
My back-to-school column at the Washington Independent Review of Books looks at both my summer reading and my growing to-be-read
My June newsletter just went out! This issue includes what I’ve been writing and publishing, what I’ve been reading, and
I struggle with finding time to read—read for myself, that is, those long sustained immersions in a novel that I
In one of my classes this week, a student commented on the level of detail in Truman Capote’s In Cold
I sent out my Spring 2018 newsletter on Friday—my birthday!—and now belatedly posting here with news, some mini-reviews, an events