By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman
By a Spider’s Thread is the latest Tess Monaghan mystery by Laura Lippman. Not having read the previous works in this series I can’t tell you how it...
Author: Kevin Holtsberry
I work in communications and public affairs. I try to squeeze in as much reading as I can while still spending time with my wife and two kids (and cheering on the Pittsburgh Steelers and Michigan Wolverines during football season).
On the road in Central Indiana
I am on the road in Indiana visiting some old college buddies and so not likely to be posting that much for a couple of days. I have received some interesting c...
Things that get under my skin
Yesterday Maud Newton posted an interview with the Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy that prompted a very mixed bag of feelings. What follows are my thoughts as best...
Dickens and the Social Order by Myron Magnet
I am not one to abandon a book midway through it. I am not sure why but I am usually obsessive about finishing every book I start. I must be getting older and m...
Robert Ferrigno Interview on NRO
John J. Miller has an interview with Robert Ferrigno (author of The Wake Up), over at National Review Online today. Given my discussion of morality in Kevin Wig...
Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley
This slim but intelligent volume really fulfills the promise of the Penguin Lives Series and reveals Jane Smiley to be a talented and insightful writer in her o...