On Sunday I finished Derek Kirk Kim’s Good As Lily after having finally finished – and loved - The Road the day before. On the evening of her eighteenth birthday, Grace Kwon meets her six-year-old self, her twenty-nine-year-old self and her...

After a horrifying Thanksgiving, it’s a relief to get back to books, books and more books. Here are updates and some links I liked over the past few days. *** A.V. Club lists the 10 best short story collections of the ’00s. In the past, I’ve had...

  Michelle Pfeiffer as Lea in "Cheri" I’m kind of cheating for the Salon today. I’m reading brief articles right now, but they’re book-related (most of them), because I’m trying to get a lot of cleaning and laundry done today. So this is what I’m...

I’ve always wanted to take a little tour of literary landmarks, and it seems I’ve found my tour guide in Poets’ Graves. I’ve even found my very first stop – extra points if you remember why. *** I completed the first draft of a short story I was...

Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for...