Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

This month, and only this month, there are two winners of the free chocolate drawing. Why? Because it is the…

Late last year I read Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. What I was most interested in…

I grew up Baptist. Fundamentalist Baptist. Consider of all the things you think that might mean.

One of them is…

Tonight I went to a lecture on evolution–specifically, evolution as it applies to viruses, such as HIV. And the science…

Okay, Readers, you’ve heard what some of us writers have to say about our need to promote our own books.…

It’s hard to digest your oatmeal when this is what waits to greet you in the rest of the paper:…

It’s the weekend, and that means we all have time to read, if we choose to. And I suggest we…

This morning a friend of mine said, “So, now that you’re rich and famous are you going to have someone…

When I was in college (also known as The Dark Years), I had . . . what shall we call…

Yesterday my 11-year-old niece started up a conversation that we’ve had more than once over the years: what do you…