My novel The Great Reclamation had been out for a little over a month when I received the email. The woman said she was German and had lived in Singapore for a few years. She wrote that she thought my ...

Like most Hollywood adaptions that test a book’s formula, “Lessons in Chemistry,” a fictional drama about a gifted female chemist who reluctantly becomes a TV cooking show sensation and contends with ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...