Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison graduated from Smith College in the early 1990s. Always a free […]
Art Thieves & Forgers
March 18, 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the devastating art theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (www.gardnermuseum.org). Thirteen masterpieces including pieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt […]
Novelist Richard Mason’s early success — not a flash in the pan
The Drowning People, Mason’s first novel, took the literary world by storm.
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo: Sweden in the 1960’s
The Laughing Policeman is one of a series of police procedurals featuring Superintendant Martin Beck and Detective Lennert Kollberg as well as several other detectives. […]
Ripped From the Headlines
Authors often find interesting news stories and incorporate them into their works of fiction. The following two books are based on true crimes that took place […]
It’s Never Time Not To Read
My husband says that I read everywhere, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I always have a book with me, just in case. So, […]
Vote Early and Often for Ranger or Morelli!
Let’s get real here! We all know that Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series is not serious literature. It probably won’t be required reading for your […]
