Sean is an artist working as an editor at a celebrity rag while trying to take care of his 8-year-old son, Toby. Several months ago his network executive wife decided she needed “time away” to find herself and abandoned father and son. Sean is left trying to manage his job and the care of his son, which includes negotiating the piranha-like waters of the posh private school ... Read More...
Back to Blood
Religion is dying…but everybody still has to believe in something. It would be intolerable—you couldn’t stand it—to finally have to say to yourself, “Why keep pretending? I’m nothing but a random atom…” So, my people, that leaves only our blood, the bloodlines that course through our very bodies to unite us. All people everywhere, you have no choice but—Back to blood! In ... Read More...
B.A. Shapiro Interview
On Monday I published my review of Shapiro’s newest book The Art Forger, a book I thoroughly enjoyed, largely for its ability to engross the reader andteach them something. I’ve always liked art but knew very little about what goes into creating a painting.It was somewhat startling, then, to read the news last week and see that in Rotterdam art thieves hit the Kunsthal museum ... Read More...
The Art Forger
The 1990 theft of thirteen painting from the Gardner museum in Boston is still one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the art world. Despite the seeming ineptitude of the two thieves, a massive manhunt and a $5 million reward, the works have never been recovered. B.A. Shapiro uses this theft as the background for her new book The Art Forger. Claire Roth is a talented artist ... Read More...
The Panther
Just when you thought it might not happen, John Corey, in all his irascible, ornery, and often spot-on political incorrectness, returns. And this time he’s the hunter…or is he? After an absence of two years Nelson DeMille brings Corey back to wrap-up the story that began in The Lion's Game and continued in The Lion.There, Corey kills a Middle Eastern terrorist, who, though not ... Read More...
Wordstock
Wordstock is a weekend long literary festival that brings authors, publishers, readers, and would-be writers together in the book friendly mecca of Portland. I went last year and recorded my thoughts here but this year was special as now that I legitimately review books and am learning more about them, their authors and the publishing industry itself it potentially felt the way ... Read More...
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