The Quivering Pen

Congratulations to  Lauren Bufferd  who won a copy of Mary Sharratt's Daughters of the Witching Hill , last week's Friday Freebie. ...

Celebrating vintage paperbacks--both the cheesy & the profound. But mostly the cheesy. Men.  War.  Killing. Post-war pulp fiction lik...

Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac informs me that today is the deathday of Honore de Balzac--"a death," Keillor says, ...

Ernest Hemingway did it.  Marcel Proust did it.  And now I've done it. The three of us, along with countless others, spent a goodly c...

As of 2:38 p.m., Saturday, August 14, 2010, John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch were still running loose, leaving a cooling trail of false sigh...

Congratulations to Jon Horton who won last week's Friday Freebie!  Jon will soon be enjoying John McPhee's Silk Parachute . This ...

Near the beginning of the first story of Benjamin Percy’s first book, The Language of Elk , there is a scene so startling, so unexpected tha...

This is a short interlude in the novel (Fobbit), presumably from Staff Sergeant Chance Gooding's perspective (though it could be any Fob...

This has been a hard week at Chez Abrams.  On Thursday, we got the news that our two-year-old cat has cancer.  He is my daughter's cat,...

Pencils.  Remember them? We're living in a post-Eberhard Faber world these days.  The keyboard is our new lead, the BKSP and DEL are ...

Congratulations to Jennifer Lauture , winner of last week's Friday Freebie.  Jennifer gets to pick one of 75 Penguin paperbacks as the p...