I suffer from occasional attacks of chutzpah. One of these caught up to me sometime in the mid-eighties. I was in my early twenties, trembling on the edge of a…Continue readingHere’s to great editors..
Journey into the heart of hate Before I went to see it with a friend, I knew almost nothing about Spike Lee’s latest movie “BlacKKKlansman” other than it was based…Continue readingBlacKkKlansman
I’ve been on a re-reading kick recently My latest re-reads have been books by Mary Doria Russell. I just wrote up my impressions of “The Sparrow” and “Children of God”…Continue readingWhat makes a book a keeper?
I was on an airplane when I first tripped over the movie “Mamma Mia” a few years ago. I must have startled (and probably scared) my fellow passenger by basically…Continue readingWhen we were young again
There is science fiction and there is fantasy, and never the twain shall meet. At least, that is the silly notion adopted by so many SF writers, readers and reviewers.…Continue readingFantasy or SF? You decide
A book-oriented email I get regularly features “The Writer’s Life”, interviews with authors which includes a Q&A. I think the standardized Q’s are interesting and for a lark decided to…Continue readingMy A’s to an interview Q’s
I was astonished and utterly delighted to discover that my nearly-20-year-old novel “The Secrets of Jin-Shei” still has wings – it has been picked as the read-along book by Matthew,…Continue readingA well-loved book
Moments n fiction and in life A life is made of moments. It is stitched together from the things you remember most vividly — the peaks and the valleys, the…Continue readingMoments
I live in a house of books. My husband is a bibliophile. So am I. The cumulative effect is catastrophic. He had HIS books, I had MY books, and when…Continue readingBOOOOOOOOKS!!!