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Book Review: Solar

Ian McEwan’s new novel, Solar, is an intriguing book–only in part because I read the whole thing while cultivating an active dislike for the protagonist.  This seems to be McEwan’s point. Michael Beard...

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On Writing: From Where You Dream & A Small Hotel

  Robert Olen Butler’s book on writing, From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction, is the most helpful book on writing I have ever read. Several months ago I had the pleasure of reading it...

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Book Review: The Happiness Project and Happier at Home

  I must confess that it took me a little while to get hooked on Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project.  I called my friend Caroline after I read the first chapter. “She kind of approaches...

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