What’s On TV This Fall? The Networks Roll Out Their New Shows
This was the week of the broadcast network “upfront” presentations, which are the splashy ads for new programming that networks …
West Meets Midwest In Tom Drury’s Quirky ‘Pacific’
There are novels you read to find out what happens next, and novels you read to linger in the moment. …
Easy Rawlins Is Alive, Or Is He?
I’ve been following Easy Rawlins since reading Devil in a Blue Dress in the ’90s. That’s a lot of time …
Bringing Back Butterscotch
Butterscotch is going through something of a revival. So much so, that two Kitchen Window regular contributors wanted to write …
Gerwig, Baumbach Poke At Post-College Pangs
In the film Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig stars as the title character, a 27-year-old living a good but not particularly …
Author Neil Gaiman On Making ‘Good Art’
A year ago, author Neil Gaiman told the graduating class at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts that life is sometimes …
Why Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed Matters
Pop culture does not mean celebrity culture; I have perhaps said this more often than anyone you’re going to meet. …
Black In America: A Story Rendered In Gray Scale
American literature has plenty of coming-of-age novels. What we need more of, judging by the strengths of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s …
Literary Werewolf Tale ‘Red Moon’ Sheds A Dim Light
One need pick up on only a hint of the zeitgeist to know that monsters once worried that their careers …
Book News: Amazon Debuts Its Virtual Currency
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Amazon debuted a virtual currency called “Amazon Coins” …
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