"Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." — Stephen King
When Diana Athill says she has no regrets at age 89, I tend to believe her, though it is, of course, an audacious thing to say. She says that she has more common sense than … Read More
Imagine that you saved a box of the printouts of all the emails that you wrote to your former fiancé in 1990s. Now, more than twenty years later, would you read them? This is a beautiful set-up … Read More
For a British novel that was published in 1950, the plot is surprising, and perhaps subversive: two unmarried sisters decline marriage proposals and live happily ever after. What! Why did they do that? Were the men were … Read More