Musings

Reading Recommendations

Some reading suggestions

My New Year's resolution was to update the blog weekly. And so, on February 28, I present my first post of the year. So much for that... Some recommended reads from 2011... 1) THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach. Incredible debut. 2) LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, by...

Behind the Books

The real cats behind THE RIDGE

Discussed in Parade Magazine and on NPR. More to come about the Exotic Feline Rescue Center around release of the paperback edition of THE RIDGE. Couldn't think of a more worthy cause for those considering a unique Christmas gift -- sponsor a big cat!...

Essays

An enormous loss — Bill Cook

Bill Cook, who with his wife Gayle financed and oversaw the incredible restoration of the West Baden Springs Hotel and French Lick Springs Hotel, brought Pete Dye in to create a one-of-a-kind golf course, and generally restored the beauty and life to an area that...

Reading Recommendations

Book-buying Friday

It's a beautiful spring weekend in most places, time to drag out the patio furniture, prop your feet up, and do a little reading. Might I recommend: 1) EMILY, ALONE, by Stewart O'Nan. Novel of the year already delivered in March? Quite possibly. O'Nan, always one...