The Little Bird

I've been threatening to do this for a while, but now it's done: Wordpress came out with their New Blogger import, so I packed the w...

Well, that's it. CLOSE RANGE firmly establishes Annie Proulx as one of my favorite authors. Why did this take three books to confirm? Be...

My dad sent this to me and it made me laugh. I thought it might make you laugh, too: At last, an objective grading system!

JACK MAGGS is the sort of book that gives me goosebumps. Something about the characters, about the depth to which Carey tests them, just get...

To me, it seems like every vaguely successful author is hailed, at some point in their career, as the "voice of a generation"--for...

I know they sound weird and gross, but trust me: they're amazing. (I wish I could say that I don't say that lightly, but I do: I say...

How does one review THE IDIOT? I have no idea. I can tell you that I enjoyed it, very much, and I can tell you roughly why, but when I put t...

There is a girl at the bus depot who has a beautiful singing voice. How do I know this? She sings aloud while waiting for her bus. She also ...

Yup, I'm excited. Why? Well, because today I met with the good folks of Murder Mountain Records , a local record label based less than, ...

When my dad told me that SHANTARAM was the best book he'd read in months, I knew I had to read it, right away. See, my dad reads even mo...

This morning, at 3 a.m., I got a call from the Kent Police, informing me that yes, our car had been found, and yes, it appeared to be "...

The car turned up in Kent! The officer who called us (at 3:00 am this morning) said it "looks driveable." That must mean that the ...

Turns out that "baby block cakes" are full-size (delicious, many-layered) cakes, decorated to look like baby blocks. They were a w...

For the last month or so, I've been working for my friend Ashley the Pastry Chef in her gourmet dessert catering business. She's te...

In an earlier entry I mentioned Christmas gifts--how I was making them, every one, this year, and how it would be dirt cheap. I mean, heartf...

We just discovered that our copy of Jesus Christ Superstar: The Motion Picture Soundtrack was in our car, wherever it may be. We also disco...

Somewhere in the acknowledgements of STARDUST, Neil Gaiman thanks a slew of authors (C.S. Lewis included) for showing him that fairy stories...

Since the news broke about our stolen car, I've been humbled by the response from the folks at Oikos: at least five people have offered ...