01.21.2012 Community By the Book: In 2012, broaden your reading horizons January is the month for resolutions, for fresh starts, for trying to get things right. Mostly we focus on our bodies, trying to lose weight, get fitter, stronger and...
01.09.2012 Community By the Book: Literary menagerie equals good reading “War Horse” opened recently to rave reviews. A Spielberg movie, a Broadway play, from a book by Michael Morpurgo — eat your hearts out, all you authors out there....
12.25.2011 Community By the Book: Book buying isn’t taking a holiday I don’t know why people always say “I hate to say I told you so” when it’s perfectly clear that “I told you so” are some of the sweetest...
11.19.2011 Community By the Book: Writers don’t just write; they also talk One of the best things about going to the New York Library Association conference in Saratoga Springs a few weeks ago was the chance to listen to the writers...
08.03.2011 News By the Book: Spell check can’t replace a good editor Let us now sing the praises of editors. I am the daughter of two of them, sister to one and friend of several, so I have a personal interest...
07.06.2011 News By the Book: Some savory reads for the summer I finally have an acceptable reason to dislike Philip Roth. I read “Portnoy’s Complaint” when I was a kid, because we all did, snickering at the “dirty” parts. There...
06.17.2011 News By the Book: Satisfying results of cookbookkeeping The big box book store in Riverhead has cookbooks everywhere, and each one you pick up is more colorful than the one you just put down. They’re all over...
02.28.2011 News Book Column: Reconnecting with some old friends There are 10 Commandments, several sins against the Holy Spirit, innumerable offenses that cry to heaven for vengeance and surely many other lists of forbidden acts from congregations unknown...
02.15.2011 News Book column: Latest news about books is not so bad Gloom and doom, woe is us, with general wailing and bemoaning (it is winter, after all) the financial difficulties of Borders bookstores. There was gnashing of teeth and groaning...
11.29.2010 News Book Column: Twinkle, twinkle, so few stars The Christmas catalogs are pouring in and I’m in a quandary over what to put on my personal wish list. It’s the colors of the clothes that confound me;...