01.08.2012 Community By the Book: Literary menagerie equals good reading “War Horse” opened recently to rave reviews. A Spielberg movie, a Broadway play, from a book by Michael Morpurgo — eat your hearts out, all you authors out there....
12.04.2011 Community By the Book: These gals always find out whodunit I was recently in the Southold library Book Cottage and coughed up a dollar for a copy of “The Haunted Bridge” by Carolyn Keene. I presented it to my...
10.07.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: 1 book, 2 plays and how they add up September’s book club selection was ‘A Beautiful Mind’ by Sylvia Nasar, the biography of John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical genius. I felt as though school had started and...
06.21.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Satisfying results of cookbookkeeping The big box book store in Riverhead has cookbooks everywhere, and each one you pick up is more colorful than the one you just put down. They’re all over...
05.23.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: What’s on your list of favorite books? I have no clue how many books are published every year in America. Oxford University Press NY was closing in on 400 in 1997, the year I retired, an...
04.26.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Their ‘nonsense’ is well worth reading We are fortunate in having two female writers, Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver, who, with great regularity, turn out complex and beautifully written books. Atwood has written more than...
02.28.2011 Uncategorized Book Column: Reconnecting with some old friends There are 10 Commandments, several sins against the Holy Spirit, innumerable offenses that cry to heaven for vengeance and surely many other lists of forbidden acts from congregations unknown...
01.28.2011 Uncategorized By the Book column: Story of a savior It’s interesting how good books locate me. A friend suggests one, a book review stands out, a cover might catch my eye. My next-door neighbor brought over a bagful...