As last year wrapped up, I wrote about the difficulty I’ve had reading as deeply…
Books and Writers
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…
A few years back, our regular books and literature columnist Rob Cline reviewed a delightful…
I am an inveterate Star Trek fan. Whether it’s the original series from the 1960s…