"Alter yourself, or we shan't have happy lives," Emma Thompson says in "Howard's End." Brilliant line!

Thoughts on Books: The Power, by Naomi Alderman People who are made of stronger stuff than I might love to read The Power. Though Alderman’s raw stor...

Thoughts on books: There are plenty of wonderful aspects of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s novel The Water Dancer, but let me start with my favorite, the depth an...

Thoughts on Books: "The Grasshopper Jungle," by Andrew Smith I’m not gonna lie—it took me a minute to realize the brilliance of the novel &q...

Global Insides: Brazil

On a happier note, Congratulations to the winners of the Glasheen-Foerster Novella Award given to two awesome young writers at Menasha High School thi...

hujja is my heartbreak not the sound of the break which sounds like the ting of a glass ball tapped on the crystal shape of my ha art hujja is my he...

Popped by this lovely independent bookshop in Fenton, MI. Bookshops have a healing vibe. Do some popping by yourself!

“The Witch’s Boy,” by Michael Gruber, is for you if you like a nice dose of fantasy and fairytale that dips into darkness while exploring very human r...

Thoughts on Books: "Suicide Notes," a novel by MTF, makes sense for ages 14-18-year-old young adults who are mature enough to handle the to...

Students enthralled (at least listening for the most part, lol) to my chat on brainstorming and drafting their novellas at my alma mater, Menasha HS....