Coming to the end of an era in publishing
I ran into my daughter's favorite author, Mary Pope Osborne, in New York the other night, whose Magic Tree House books I've read to the child at night, and a...
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The feeding of U.S. senators
I was the only reporter who snuck into the Senate spouses dinner in Washington last week, and nobody swore me to secrecy so here goes ... Tuesday, May 11, in...
Oblivious to all of the hullabaloo
I often walk through Times Square where the Incompetent Bomber parked his 1993 Nissan Pathfinder on Saturday with the alarm clocks wired to the M88 firecrackers in the canister between...
Is it fact or fiction?
It's the best spring ever, green and lush, and baby robins are chittering in their nest in the maple tree and the smell of blossoms is in the air —...
Silent brotherhood:
I travel around a LOT — too much, but one does learn things from spending time in the company of strangers, such as the fact that too many young American...
Vanilla can be a flavor to savor
Said it before, say it again: It's a great country, and one of its beauties is freedom of expression, freer now than ever before, and another is a general amiability...
A toast to our ‘hroth’
The mind glazes over at the sight of the words so let's just refer to it as "hrothgar reform" and congratulate the president and Nancy Pelosi for pushing it through...
Solution is worse than
The snow is melting in the woods of North Carolina and the kudzu is greening up. This ravenous pealike vine was introduced to prevent soil erosion and now it is...
United we gather
We now interrupt Mrs. Palin's book tour to bring you Thanksgiving, a grand old holiday, and we in the book business are thankful for her, that a busy woman who...
A tribute to naked … art
I was in Chicago with time on my hands and the sweet woman murmured to me -- you know how this goes -- "Would you like to see the Art...