C.S. Lewis said “You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” Eleven Over Sixty: A Reading List of Later in Life Debuts Kathleen Stone Recommends Books by Bettye Kearse, Octavio Solis, and More Kathleen Stone is a writer whose debut, They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men, is out…

I am delighted to announce the launch of my new book, Dead Beckoning, available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble in paperback and ebook formats. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed researching and writing it. The story takes place in 1895 and is based…

[A] writer is someone who pays attention to the world Four great pieces from past issues of The Paris Review, one of my favorite literary magazines. Enjoy! When Edward Hirsch spoke to Susan Sontag, in between her trips to Sarajevo, for a 1995 Art of Fiction interview, he noted that…

o Kill a Mockingbird? Really? The Handmaid’s Tale? Maus? “Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.” Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower When will it end? Book…

Are Screens Robbing Us of Our Capacity for Deep Reading? Call me old-school, but I’ll take a good, old-fashioned print book over an ebook any day. Yes, I own a Kindle. And yes, I use it on occasion, especially when traveling (which I’ve done little of since the beginning of…

The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. This is the only known recording in existence of Virginia Woolf. By Fiona Macdonald Seventy-five years have passed since the British writer died. To mark the anniversary, we…

We Will Always Need Virginia Woolf Here’s a great piece by Emma Knight on the legacy of a literary icon, Virginia Woolf. Knight wrote this piece on the 140th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s birth, January 25th.

I CANNOT FORGO ATLANTA Mike Cobb Atlanta. April 1924. This is the second of a series of lightly fictionalized vignettes about The Biltmore Hotel and Apartments in Atlanta. I am writing these vignettes in collaboration with Biltmore Radio (biltmoreradio.org). Soon they will be recorded and available for streaming on the…

HOME AWAY FROM HOME Mike Cobb Atlanta. April 1924. This is the first of a series of lightly fictionalized vignettes about The Biltmore Hotel and Apartments in Atlanta. I am writing these vignettes in collaboration with Biltmore Radio (biltmoreradio.org). Soon they will be recorded and available for streaming on the…