Our blog book club is scheduled to "meet" to discuss Time of My Life: A Novel by Allison Winn Scotch on Oct. 9. I’ve got good news! Scotch, who is a New York Times best-selling author, has agreed to visit our club, peruse the comments and respond to our questions. She is an author, a freelancer and [...]

Today I’m pleased to present a Q&A with Tim Wendel, who is the author of seven books, including RED RAIN: A NOVEL and HIGH HEAT, which will be published this spring by Da Capo Press. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, USA Weekend, National Geographic Traveler, Washingtonian and Esquire.
Tim teaches fiction [...]

I had high expectations of our trip to the National Book Festival on Saturday. I had visions of sitting on the front row in the fiction tent, taking in everything the authors had to say. Meanwhile I figured Evan, my two year old, and my husband, Bryan, would be entertained in the PBS kids’ tent. [...]

Mindy Long presents this Q&A with best-selling author Charles Brandt. Charles talks about his experiences researching and writing the book that answers the question on who killed Jimmy Hoffa.

 
 
Years ago my dad told me I needed to read "I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa. “It’s a book about the mafia and Jimmy Hoffa,” he said. I normally listen to the fatherly advice my dad gives [...]

 My story on the national diesel mechanic shortage ran in the Sept. 21 edition of Transport Topics. The piece is up online at TT’s Web site here. 

On a recent trip to the bookstore, I just happened to reach up on the shelf and pull down The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc: A Novel by Loraine Despres. I was hooked before I even finished reading the back cover, which starts, “It’s a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting [...]