The Quivering Pen

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. In truth, I have been repr...

Congratulations to Paul Thomley , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles. This week’s contest...

While on a seven-month Fulbright Nehru fellowship to India this spring, Elizabeth Kadetsky (author of The Memory Eaters ) initially pack...

My First Time: A Long Time Coming I’d waited many, many years before it happened—what I like to call, to borrow a term from baseball,...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.        This is a ritual of...

Congratulations to Laura Strachan , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: Mastering the Process by Elizabeth George. This week’s...

Congratulations to Phil Milio , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: Prairie Fever by Michael Parker. This week’s contest is fo...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. Sundays were always so pea...

My First In-Depth Encounter with an Actual Author In 1990, the summer before I enrolled at Columbia Journalism School, a friend had p...

Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary. The revolution Edison had ...

Congratulations to Carl Scott , winner of last week’s Friday Freebie contest: Lanny , the new novel by Max Porter (author of Grief is the T...