Reading Around

My daughter catches toads on summer nights when they fill the street in front of her house. When rain creates rivers of glistening light [...]

The typewriter sat on the counter. Beside it were the words Freewrite. There were no cords coming out of the back, nothing particular lit [...]

I’m flat on my back my heels spread as wide as the mat my fingers stretch like star shapes my palms face up because I’m trying to be [...]

The statistics are not encouraging. According to Pew Research, 24 percent of American adults say they haven’t read a book in the past [...]

Because you might manage to save a life this time, instead of being responsible for the taking of five because you were too stupid, too [...]

If you couldn’t sleep, chances are you would find my mother in the kitchen at 3 A.M. with a cup of hot chocolate or maybe a cool [...]

Just as Hollywood saves its best popcorn movies for the summer, so do publishers save some of their best  books for beach season. [...]