469 days after Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, Kate and Gerry McCann continue to hold out hope that she is alive. Following the opening of the case files in recent weeks, there seems to be more reason than ever to believe that Madeleine was likely abducted…Continue reading Day 469
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The Order of Myths Coming to SF
My twentieth high school reunion is coming up–class of 88, Murphy High School, Mobile, Alabama–and as I was browsing the reunion site yesterday I came across a familiar name, Margaret Brown. She was a year behind me in school, and now she’s all grown up, and it turns out she’s been busy. Months ago, I…Continue reading The Order of Myths Coming to SF
Muhammad: The Taboo-du-Jour
Apparently there’s a hot new taboo out there in the publishing industry: Muhammad. In this disturbing Wall Street Journal opinion piece,Asra Q. Nomani describes how concern over possible offense to Muslims and fear of terrorist threats led Ballantine to cancel the publication of Sherry Jones’s debut novel THE JEWEL OF MEDINA, “a tale of lust,…Continue reading Muhammad: The Taboo-du-Jour
Another One Bites the Dust
Today at Ghost Word, Frances Dinkelspiel reports extensively on what’s happening to the Los Angeles Times. A while back there was talk of the death of the novel. Well, that never happened, and I seriously doubt it will anytime in the near future. Who knows, we may all go Kindle, but I do believe the…Continue reading Another One Bites the Dust
Visit Me in California
Booklist gave Cooley Windsor‘s forthcoming story collection, Visit Me in California, a starred review: “These stories give new and devastating insight into what it means to yearn and what it means to falter; they commit the rare and essential accomplishment of exposing their characters as wounded, flawed, and wholly human.” And Publisher’s Weekly had this…Continue reading Visit Me in California