After reading This Is a Story of a Happy Marriage, it is clear that author Ann Patchett not only talks the talk but walks the walk of a successful writer.
Gwen Florio knows how to tell a story. Not only can she construct a gripping murder mystery, but she also can relate it in original and striking—if sometimes overdone—language.
My brother seven hours late flying into the most dangerous American airport, I sat on the floor against the wall in a waiting area with a blithe look on my face, scarcely bothering to eat or drink:
Of the many virtuoso choices Ruth Rendell has made in her Inspector Wexford series (this is number 24) perhaps the best decision is to have characters age.
It’s hard to believe that there is somewhere in New York state more remote that Millers Kill, the small Adirondack town where Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne has lived all his life. But there is.
Eighty-five year old writer Lore Segal’s new novel Half the Kingdom is a darkly humorous yet unflinching look at the frustrations and indignities that accompany old age and at the relation
