Read my interview with Barbara Taylor in 26, now a prominent historian and lecturer, then a very disturbed patient in one of London’s last mental institutions. This book was shortlisted…
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I don’t often recommend musicals. I find them dated and a bit silly, unless they’re terrific. The just opened Tony Award winning Beautiful about singer/songwriter Carole King’s early career from…
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On the 26th day of every month, 26 – a newsletter to inspire the love of words – hits the screen. Below is this month’s issue, which I helped edit.…
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As today is the 26th of the month, I thought it a timely idea to introduce you wordsmiths out there to 26, a stimulating writer’s group named after the letters in…
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“Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit.…
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“When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid.”
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Ever since I moved to Manhattan in the mid-1980’s I have loved reading anything by American writer Anna Quindlen. She’s smart, intuitive, wise and has a way of expressing herself…
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For bookworms who love to eat, check out Eat This Poem, a Los Angeles-based blog combining the joy of eating with the love of poetry. (The idea of a starving…
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Nora Ephron’s son Jacob Bernstein wrote a moving tribute to his late mother in the New York Times. Ephron is my hero, make that heroine. Below are just a few of…
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