by Clea | Sep 16, 2019 | Five Questions, Uncategorized
Tara Laskowski burst onto the consciousness of many readers with her Agatha Award-winning short story, “The Case of the Vanishing Professor” (from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine). This fall (Oct. 1!), we’ll get more Tara, as Graydon House...
by Clea | Sep 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Boston Globe uses a firewall for readers. If it’s going to continue to pay reporters and editors – as well as freelancers like me! – it needs people to subscribe. That’s why the fall arts preview might ask you to log in (though you can read a few...
by Clea | Sep 9, 2019 | Five Questions, Writers on Writing
The marvelous Thames Street Oyster House was loud. The occasion – the dinner preceding the wedding of dear friends – festive. And considering the bride and groom, the conversation swung from politics and food to arts and writing. No surprise, then, that I found myself...
by Clea | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Why “genre?,” I asked my editor. Why not just ask me to pick five novels for the fall preview? I was all ready to launch into my usual “don’t ghettoize us into different categories, we’re all storytellers, etc.” when he explained...
by Clea | Sep 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Stephen King is always fun to read. These days, he’s also increasingly political – but that doesn’t take away from the sheer thrill of his new The Institute. Read my review in the Boston Globe here.
