There is a bookstore in Novi Sad, the city in which I was born – a place that smelled of books, and of yellowing paper, and of aging book binding…Continue readingGerman Indians
The Greatest Spies In Pop Culture In fiction — as well as the real world — spies are everywhere. At io9, Katharine Trendacosta and Meredith Woerner picked 50 out of…Continue readingWho’s your favorite spy?
At the Ted talk blog, Helene Batt and Kate Torgovnick May examine 40 brilliant idioms that simply can’t be translated literally As our Open Translation Project volunteers translate TED Talks…Continue readingTomato eyes?
I write books. I tell stories. I create worlds, and the characters who inhabit them. I know I have hit my mark when I get a reaction from readers —…Continue readingYou killed her!
I was nineteen years old and a ‘seasoned’ writer who had written between three and six novels, depending on whether you counted only the ‘good’ ones or everything, when I…Continue readingGoodbye — and Thank You
One of the formative reading experiences of any child of my background and culture is the book “The Bridge on the Drina” by Ivo Andric. It was a seminal…Continue readingBridge to history
Eureka Books: For most of the 20th century this charming storefront in Eureka, CA was a rough-and-tumble speakeasy called the High Lead Saloon, where in 1933 the two owners had…Continue readingWhat’s better than a bookshop?
In Flavorwire, Emily Temple tells us that TV tends to refer to refer to literature to make just about anything a little more highbrow, and adds that “nothing’s more fun…Continue readingTV meets Literature
In Dawn of Magic, the last book in my Worldweaver series, Coyote comes into full flower. (I’m working the final proofs now.) When I set out to write the Worldweavers…Continue readingEncounter with Coyote
Lovereading.co.uk has created an infographic for language enthusiasts called “15 Words You Never Knew Came from Literature.” Some of the books featured in this image include The Hobbit, Catch-22, and…Continue reading15 Words