The Quivering Pen

111. Three slashes, like a prisoner scratching the number of days in his prison cell; in my case, however, I was liberated by the on...

Here in western Montana, climate change robbed us of our Fall. An early snowstorm on September 29 left us punched and reeling from an ...

The blood-gushing elevator. The snowbound maze. The REDRUM lipstick scrawl. The twins in their matching blue dresses. The shine of clai...

Congratulations to Jennifer Gladhill , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: The Collector of Leftover Souls by Eliane Brum. Jus...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. Rideout returned the smi...

Reader:   Eric Rickstad Location:   Vermont Collection size:   No idea, a lot. Books everywhere. The one book I’d back into a burnin...

The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil ( Grove/Atlantic ) I look forward to a new Josh Weil book like Donald Trump looks forward ...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. “Lowtown’s where they drin...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. A good novelist does not l...

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...