In December, the Matinee Book Club will be discussing its 50th novel! Impressed? I sure…
Books and Writers
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…
A few years back, our regular books and literature columnist Rob Cline reviewed a delightful…
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…
At age 12, Polo Altynski-Ross took on the daunting task of documenting his family’s dramatic…
Longtime readers of this column know that I write about Lawrence Block and his work…