Lawrence Cook’s favorite guilty pleasure is reading in bed with the entire family – each with their own book or newspaper. With daughters getting bigger, she knows that this pleasure has an expiration date. On a day with no commitments, she…
On occasional Wednesdays, I’ll post a passage from a current read that is too amazing, provocative, funny, or beautiful not to share. Today’s selection is from Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrower (reviewed in yesterday’s post). Sandro is a successful artist in…
Nashville’s All-City Read for 2014, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, is both heart-warming and heart-wrenching. From beginning to end, it simmers with feeling. Another hot current read – The Flamethrowers – explodes with action you didn’t see coming. Both…
Mary Falls is a fearless traveler, dedicated volunteer, inspired hostess, and former legal eagle – and she reads the way most people breathe! Mary does not have much patience with a grammatical error, but has loved reading to her three…
Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a smart, playful romp that begins in a musty secondhand bookstore in San Francisco then weaves through time and place, with stops at a book-worshipping cult in ancient Egypt (probably imagined by the author), a…
Caroline Shockley rules the school this year as president of the University School of Nashville’s Parent Association. She has also been managing Scout, an energetic new puppy, in addition to her family. How she finds time to read, I do…
You may find yourself in another part of the world. You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile. You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife. And you may ask yourself – well…
The dark days of February are behind us, and Spring lies just ahead – but March in Nashville tries our patience. The world stays gray and cold and all is tedium; the dogs are restless, and we with them. We…
In The News: A User’s Manual, Alain de Botton examines with his usual thoughtfulness and wicked humor the state of news reporting today. His conclusion: Journalists fail us, utterly! DeBotton is well known for his deep dives into subjects that interest…