What Pleases Me

Barbara Newman’s fascinating book titled Making Love in the Twelfth Century: “Letters of Two Lovers” in Context was written for scholars and academics but will be cherished by anyone who loves a good love letter. The letters referenced in the title constitute the…

I can sometimes forget just how wonderful are the words of Shakespeare — and then a gift appears, as in this simply perfect performance by Damian Lewis. Thank you, The Guardian, for creating these clips.

Great news for cat lovers and book lovers! Welcome Home, Bernard Socks, the sequel to The Story of Fester Cat will be released this week. The second installation in Paul Magrs’ series about the cats in his life (and we want more!) is titled Welcome Home, Bernard Socks. It tells the…

I was made an honorary member of the Letter Writers Alliance, a fabulous group that supports letter writing. And loved my book, which is great: “This is one of the best books on letters and the love of letters that I have read in a while. It’s not…

My Letter Tree

Made for me by a beloved friend, in celebration of the publication of Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing

Quick Reads is a UK-based nonprofit that has a simple — and wonderful — goal. To get people reading. Or as they say, To start a new chapter. Because reading is about more than just opening up a book and going through the words found there…

There was a great piece in the New York Times Book Review last weekend, about writers reviewing other writers’ books (Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists?).

In the piece, Zoe Heller argued that it is hard to write a bad review —…