Before they became all the rage amongst sixth-graders, I wanted to write a story
about vampires. I rode a wave of inspiration for about fifteen minutes before
abandoning my project to the towering
An unhappy worker generally has three ways to respond to a nightmarish job . . .
1. Survive
She can aim for survival if her circumstances don’t allow the luxury of
unemployment, so she should
Salvatore Scibona’s debut novel, The End
[http://www.amazon.com/End-novel-Salvatore-Scibona/dp/1555974988], deftly avoids
all the stereotypes that plague many mainstream works of Italian-Americana: you
won’t find any greasy gumbas
Oh, Margaret Atwood, how could you have known – approximately 20 years before
the advent of Facebook – that there would one day be a place (a cyber place, no
less!) where ordinary people eagerly
Story. That’s why people watch the Olympics [http://www.nbcolympics.com/]. It’s
certainly not the finer points of curling technique
[http://www.nbcolympics.com/curling/index.html] or the joy of