When the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres take to the field in…
Books and Writers
In conjunction with the release of Heather Gudenkauf’s 10th novel, Everyone is Watching, Swamp Fox…
As last year wrapped up, I wrote about the difficulty I’ve had reading as deeply…
Maybe it’s true love. You can’t imagine your life without it. Maybe it’s a secret…
Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion hosts its first author talk of the year at 6…
I listened to the audiobook versions of The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown and The…
In 1961, the American writer MacKinlay Kantor (1904-1977) published a book about Iowa history called…
I used to review more than 50 books each year. I mention it here not…
In December, the Matinee Book Club will be discussing its 50th novel! Impressed? I sure…
Way back in November 2009, I reviewed a work in progress by Dahlia Lithwick. In…
I am writing this column on Dame Agatha Christie’s birthday—September 15—and I can think of…
Recently, I was reading a Slate piece on artificial intelligence. Writers, after all, have been…
Audra Kerr Brown keeps her stories short—very short. A writer of flash fiction, Kerr Brown…
Of late, the combination of anti-LGBTQ and anti-book bills coming out of the Iowa legislature…
Here’s the pitch Fritz McDonald gives when asked to describe the graphic novel he co-created…