Continuing my reviews of books with the word “Attic” in the title is “Behind the Attic Wall,” a YA novel that could not be more different from “Flowers in the Attic,” but at the same time left such an impression on me that for years I considered it one of my favorites,
Flowers in the Attic: Sex and the pre-teen girl
Like many young girls who grew up the 1980s, I stumbled upon “Flowers in the Attic” because I was attracted to its cut-out paperback cover.
Writers’ groups are really made for writers
“Marketing is a long and arduous process that I wish I would have known more about in the beginning…” opens today’s Publisher’s Weekly article about the professional benefits of joining a writers’ group.
The Alienist finally gets its screen debut
I was surprised to learn that Caleb Carr’s novel “The Alienist” will soon be a TNT miniseries—not because it lacked fans (it reached the top 10 of The New York Times’ Bestseller list in 1994),
The New York Times goes to 11: It’s 11 new books they recommend
This week’s “11 New Books We Recommend this Week” from The New York Times includes the latest in the Jack Reacher series;
#TBT It’s Harold Robbins’ The Lonely Lady
In the spirit of #tbt is Harold Robbins’ 1976 novel, “The Lonely Lady.” I’d thought a lot of Robbins’s work was a slight step above dime-store schlock,
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists … and a whole bunch of other phonies
When you create a work of fiction, the world is whatever you want it to be. But “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes,
The Brothers: A tragedy decades in the making
Through a recent conversation about Russian politics, I learned about Masha Gessen’s 2015 book “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about Tamerlan and Dzhokhar “Jahar”
NaNoWriMo: The endurance test that may lead to a bestseller
November is National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, when Great American Novelists scramble to write 50,000-word manuscripts in 30 days.
Love is a baseball field: “Shoeless Joe”
“If you build it, he will come.”
Besides “Shoeless Joe,” there are few sports novels (actually,
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