The Quivering Pen

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. As an artist, the one thin...

Reader:  Jan English Leary Location:   Chicago Collection size:   About 1,300 books that are mine alone and about as many in the rest ...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. Having been in the inhospi...

This Was the Year This was the year I killed it, reading-wise: 130 books , a new record since I started keeping track of my habits in...

At this uncertain and unsteady Thanksgiving, I am grateful for many things: family, health, a stable job, and the food I’m about to eat ...

My bags were packed. Into my suitcase, I’d neatly arranged the folded flags of shirts, squares of underwear, my shaving kit, my slippers...