Beth Kephart is one of the most prolific authors I know, both in quantity and in genre. Her new book, One Thing Stolen, due out in April, will be her 19th book. She has written memoirs, young adult (YA) fiction,…
I am two and a half months into my new role as bookseller. Yes, I have done that thing that many people think is crazy: along with my husband, Evan, I have opened an independent bookstore in Elkins Park. It’s…
It has begun. Beginning with that blackest of Fridays just days ago, you are expected to shop. You will be tempted and taunted with deals and steals, and retailers nationwide will urge you to indulge your consumerist inclinations. We book…
On Wednesday evening, at a fancy party at Cipriani’s on Wall Street in NYC, the National Book Foundation will award this year’s National Book Awards. This event is sort of the Oscars of book publishing, and bold-face literary names will…
We are probably all aware of the “DIY” trend people making things themselves from scratch rather than purchasing them. My writer friend Jennifer Worick picked up on this several years ago when she wrote a book called The Prairie…
Colm Tóibín, an Irish writer whose work I admire, just published a new novel, Nora Webster. Nora is a newly widowed mother of four who lives in a small town in County Wexford in Ireland, and who must come to…
Author Josh Isard gets up at 5 a.m. to write. so, when we meet at 10:45 for coffee and to talk about writing and publishing, it’s already lunchtime for him. Ok, I confess, the egg sandwich he ordered at Michael’s…
I just finished reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton. Published first in the U.K. and in the U.S. this past August, the book has been receiving very good reviews and has made several bestseller lists. But I was disappointed in…
As two foxes frolic on a backyard trampoline, one of them revels in bouncing like a kangaroo in a YouTube video that has drawn more than 21 million views. Charlotte Boulay borrowed from that 5-year-old video in naming her first…
Yolanda Wisher says she became a poet at age 8. Last month, 30 years later, she proudly published her first book of poetry, Monk Eats an Afro, from Hanging Loose Press. Wisher isnt worried about how long it took. Im…