WRITING The only thing you need to do to be a writer is write. It can be hard for most people to fit writing time in, though, especially if you’re a parent or have a busy day job. Most writing advice focuses on getting up early in the morning to write before your kids are […]
When I was little, five or six, I was taken to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running juggernaut musical “Cats.” My parents knew that I was already a big fan of cats (the species), and they had strategically hyped Lloyd Webber’s source material, T. S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.” What they didn’t know was […]
Book Marks logo Our five-alarm fire of fabulous reviews this week includes Patrick Cottrell on Tracy O’Neill’s Woman of Interest , Phillip Maciak on Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun , Anthony Domestico on Michael Nott’s Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life , Lauren LeBlanc on Olivia Laing’s The Garden Against Time , and Meara Sharma […]
Illustration of the fairytale “Snow White and Rose Red” by Paul Hey via Wikimedia Commons. Based loosely on a Grimms’ fairytale, Bear is both enchanting and suspenseful. Sam, a concessions worker on a ferry, is terrified when a bear shows up at her family’s front door. Elena, instead, grows enchanted by the bear, seeking him […]
Novelist Maxim Loskutoff joins co-host V.V. Ganeshananthan and guest co-host Matt Gallagher to talk about his new novel, Old King , which is about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who moved to Montana to withdraw from society. Loskutoff, who grew up in Missoula, Montana, discusses the mythology that draws men like Kaczynski—who sought to be in nature, […]
