08.10.2012 Community Book Column: More than one way to discuss a book Food and literature both sustain us and it is a wonderful thing when they do it together. The book ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ by Laura Esquivel has been the...
07.13.2012 Community Book Column: What’s the deal with working so hard? Imagine that there is a science fiction book by someone like Robert Heinlein or Arthur C. Clarke that posits a distant planet where thousands of scientists from a hundred...
04.21.2012 Community By the Book: Novel ways to enjoy communal books April may well be the cruelest month: Fighting season begins again as the mountain passes thaw in Afghanistan, tornadoes rampage throughout the Midwest, taxes must be paid and we...
01.21.2012 Community By the Book: In 2012, broaden your reading horizons January is the month for resolutions, for fresh starts, for trying to get things right. Mostly we focus on our bodies, trying to lose weight, get fitter, stronger and...
12.17.2011 Community By the Book: Book buying isn’t taking a holiday I don’t know why people always say “I hate to say I told you so” when it’s perfectly clear that “I told you so” are some of the sweetest...
11.19.2011 Community By the Book: Writers don’t just write; they also talk One of the best things about going to the New York Library Association conference in Saratoga Springs a few weeks ago was the chance to listen to the writers...
10.27.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: What’s occupying writers nowadays There is a wonderful new website called OccupyWriters.com that has an ever-lengthening alphabetical list of writers who are in support of Occupy Wall Street and a few meditations on...
10.06.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: We may be living in the most peaceful time in the existence of our species. If numbers and statistics could be made to sing alleluias, then perhaps we could hear the good news trilling out of two new books by distinguished academics, Joshua S....
