Tag: book

A reader walks into a bookstore. Spies an interesting book. What does she do? Picks it up. Flips to the first chapter before anything else. At least, that’s what I do.

Back when I was in elementary school, we used to do that thing on Valentine’s Day where you wrote little crummy cardboardy valentines (often from Your …

Gramercy Park, smiling at the sudden softening of city noise. In the past five years, as automobile and truck traffic replaced the rhythmic clip-clop of hooves and …

0: none of this is true unless you find it to be true. 1. If you’re bored, we’re bored. 2. Characters at every level of the story want something — love, revenge, cake, whatever — and when we meet them we’d better soon know what that thing is. Especially if it’s cake. We can all…