Musings
An enormous loss — Bill Cook
Bill Cook, who with his wife Gayle financed and oversaw the incredible restoration of the West Baden Springs Hotel and French Lick Springs Hotel, brought Pete Dye in to create a one-of-a-kind golf course, and generally restored the beauty and life to an area that...
Book-buying Friday
It’s a beautiful spring weekend in most places, time to drag out the patio furniture, prop your feet up, and do a little reading. Might I recommend: 1) EMILY, ALONE, by Stewart O’Nan. Novel of the year already delivered in March? Quite possibly....
Recommended reads for March
I was traveling a great deal this month, which meant I was reading a great deal. Having just returned from a wonderful literary festival in Lyon, France, I knocked off eight books in the last few days alone. Being an insomniac on an overnight flight isn’t...
A great songwriter featured in a great magazine
And lucky me, I had the pleasure of doing the interview. This one was a real treat, and I encourage you all to check out Joe Pug’s work and browse around the Paste site a bit. There’s wonderful stuff there....
Tragic news in the mystery community
http://www.murderbooks.com/ If you can make the memorial service, do so. If you can’t, buy a book from David Thompson’s store — we just lost the most passionate bookseller in the business, and one of the finest people I’ve ever known....