Booker finalist Astonishing Splashes of Colour takes its title from J. M. Barrie's description of Peter Pan's Neverland. It follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, ... Read More

Renown author and social activist, Susan Sontag died at the age of 71 this past Tuesday, December 28, 2004. She had suffered from various forms of cancer since the ... Read More

It's 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom town outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Bueller-type, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of ... Read More

A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the ... Read More

Invoking nightmares that could actually happen, State of Fear by Michael Crichton spans the globe, unraveling a terrorist plot to manipulate the forces of nature and fool the world. ... Read More

Everyone knows that the queen is the most powerful piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. Born in the 6th ... Read More

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under ... Read More

The Virtual Book Tour is back! Produced by writer and speaker, Kevin Smokler, the VBT connects "books with interested readers through the medium of weblogs and personal websites." ... Read More

More than two hundred poems about the American experience of war—narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymns—many of them classics. Written by soldier-poets as well as poets on ... Read More

Created In Darkness by Troubled Americans, billed as "The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category," is exactly that. Do you like funny things? This book is an irreverent and ... Read More

By age 8 Bobby Darin knew he was doomed to die young. So he set out to become a showbiz legend by age 25. From his Grammy-winning smash hit "Mack ... Read More

Here's a bit of fun - a small collection of the heavy-handed criticism leveled against classic works: "... as unacquainted with art as a hog is with mathematics." The London Critic review ... Read More

As we enter the holiday season, our thoughts turn away from the material to matters more spiritual. Or perhaps not. Either way, I have gift lists for you ... Read More