We recently became e-readers, by this we don’t mean reading devices, but people who read on reading devices. Having resisted the transition from traditional books, we have been surprised how pleasant the switch has been. Apart from not being quite sure that what we are reading and absorbing are actual books – they have no […]

What we have been asking as we edit various memoirs lately is: Who? Recently, a number of them contain only one named character, the person whose moniker appears on the title page after the preposition, by. No one else in these books has a name. Instead, they are full of characters like my mother, my […]

We have been watching AMC’s “The Killing,” the murder mystery television series set in Seattle. And we have been struck by the endless rain and how it feeds the feeling of gloom that pervades the story – and brilliantly characterizes the city. We come away with a definite sense (accurate or not, the series was […]