As last year wrapped up, I wrote about the difficulty I’ve had reading as deeply…
I listened to the audiobook versions of The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown and The…
I used to review more than 50 books each year. I mention it here not…
Way back in November 2009, I reviewed a work in progress by Dahlia Lithwick. In…
I am writing this column on Dame Agatha Christie’s birthday—September 15—and I can think of…
Recently, I was reading a Slate piece on artificial intelligence. Writers, after all, have been…
Audra Kerr Brown keeps her stories short—very short. A writer of flash fiction, Kerr Brown…
Of late, the combination of anti-LGBTQ and anti-book bills coming out of the Iowa legislature…
Here’s the pitch Fritz McDonald gives when asked to describe the graphic novel he co-created…
I am an inveterate Star Trek fan. Whether it’s the original series from the 1960s…
Isaac Hamlet has a story he’s been crafting and recrafting for quite some time. Recently,…
As the calendar turns to November, we enter the darkest portion of the year—the period…
For quite a while now, I’ve devoted this space to conversations with Iowa’s indie authors—the…
This month, I’m sharing some thoughts about a range of books I’ve been reading and…
Longtime readers of this column know that I write about Lawrence Block and his work…