The Surly Bookseller

I took a couple of days off last week for a trip with my granddaughter, and it threw me so utterly off my schedule for everything. Of course...

I have never fancied myself much of a cook. I say that out of no false modesty. Until a couple years ago it was something I didn't like ...

We had a really nice family dinner a few nights ago. All the adults at the table are in various stages of making healthy changes to our die...

You'd be surprised, probably, to find out how many bestselling books I never got around to reading when I was a bookseller. The reason w...

I suppose as long as there are those whose life's calling it is to insure that wrongdoers are brought to justice there will always...

A weekly-ish look at stuff I had fun doing or finding or thinking about this week,  mostly outside the pages of a book.  Last summe...

I always told my customers not to feel like a lump if they were slogging through a book that everyone else just loved. "There's a ...