Tolstoy and the Purple Chair has been chosen as a book of the month by the Book Club Queen, a site dedicated to avid readers ready to take on the adventure of book clubbing. As a long-time believer in (and member of) book clubs, I am honored to have been chosen by the…

The final line of John Banville’s review of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights in the New York Times Book Review states: “the author comes fully to realize, and to face squarely, the dismaying fact that against life’s worst onslaughts nothing…