They all smell the same. Ghosts of a thousand casseroles. You may be on a road trip, but the proprietor will never let you use the bathroom. Even if you spend a century note. You will forge on, nonetheless. Magpie, you can spot the sparkle from twenty yards. These are the thrift stores of the …
The man who recently wrote to me had been a bookstore owner in Arkansas and, because of the vicissitudes of the business (“death by box store”, as he put it), he’d taken a job as a custodian for its meager pay and the critical benefits it provided. He thanked me for the dignity I had …
Let’s talk Romance. No, I’m not asking you to send me flowers and chocolates and wine and dine me (though if you’d like to do so, I won’t object). I’m talking about a genre that accounted for approximately $1.08 billion in sales in 2013, or 13% of adult fiction sales. (See more facts and figures …
