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The late Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, but his Twitter account is still up and viewable. The way he describes himself in the bio, to his...

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It’s a balmy afternoon in a suburb of Kansas City. Flowers are in full bloom, worshipping the sun. Standing at the entrance to a nondenominational Christian...

With summer right around the corner, it’s time to start planning which books you’ll want to bring with you on vacations or free moments you want...

Get your sunscreen and TBR stacks ready because it’s June, when kids are no longer in school, summer reading programs begin, and my daughter and I...

Going to the doctor is nerve wracking. Moving from one waiting room to another, deliberating over answers to difficult questions (how many drinks a week do...

Book friends, summer is finally here. Okay, it technically isn’t summer until the end of June. Still, after this miserable Minnesota winter, I am more than...

In Maddalena and the Dark, Julia Fine invites reader to enter the cloistered halls of the Ospedale della Pietà—part-convent, part-orphanage, part music school—where young orphaned girls...

Where does it start, this writing business? Forget the initial idea story, the hours spent mapping out the plot, the characters, the research, the edits and...