You’ve either got a taste for the blood-drenched, sexed-up, medieval-flavored political brilliance of Game of Thrones – or you don’t. I figure I’m in good company with Margaret Atwood, who says, “Once sucked in, you stay sucked. Be warned.” I’m also expecting…
“If life always went exactly as planned, there would be no stories. If you look at it that way, a crappy day can be the greatest gift,” writes Sine Thieme at her terrific blog, JoburgExpat, and I can just hear…
Over Spring Break, I had a chance to take a deep breath and feel some peace inside. It’s not hard when I’m walking on a beach, especially on a cool day when the sky is grey and it’s mostly just me and…
Holly Conner – in a bold and creative move – duck taped her younger brother Forrest to the door jamb when he was considerably smaller. It seems he’s forgiven her, though: “Holly is the most loving, caring, supportive and adoring…
If winter has left you feeling more than a little grumpy and cooped up, you might consider one of the fun and fantastical reads in today’s post as we dream of Spring! Mermaids in Paradise, by Lydia Millet, makes the…
“Big Holly” and “Little Holly” lived next door to each other as freshmen at Duke. “I adored her immediately,” says Nashvillian Holly Conner about Holly LeCraw, who grew up in Atlanta. As “token” Southerners, they became fast friends, rooming together sophomore…
Frighteningly perfect children populate some of today’s most acclaimed literary fiction, from All the Light We Cannot See to The Goldfinch. Friend of Bacon Laura Cooper asks why in a brilliant article published today in The Washington Post. She has…
Betsy and Ridley Wills have serious street cred in 37205. Generational. They could have kept things cozy, Belle Meade style, but playing it safe just isn’t the way they roll! Ridley started his own company (you’ve heard of it), and…