A Writer's Desk

The New York Times has an essay about shoplifted books. From the piece... With the recession, shoplifting is on the rise, according to book...

Me and my French-loving kid is heading to Disneyland this week so the blog will be a little lean this week. In the meantime, sing along!

Steve Martin is one of my heroes so I am more than a little excited about seeing him play banjo at Benaroya Hall in November. He talks to th...

And she's already pretty damn cool. Washington D.C. AV breaks it down for you. In college, I did a 10 page report on "Space Dog,...

The posts in the next few days will be few and far between while I play with my kid. In the meantime... I played the trombone through colleg...

Jeanette Winterson, for The Guardian, revisits Paris and one of the world's most famous bookstores . Last year, when I visited Paris, I ...

It's snowing like crazy here in Seattle. I've decided to take the day off from work. It's really rather beautiful out the window...

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped a maxim...

In an effort to spice up my blog a bit with personal writings, observations, etc., a short story I worked up the other day after reading a r...

There's been some backlash of late when I stopped another blog I kept up that had some silly observations by me, some silly bacon recipe...

I recently found a series of questions on the So Many Books blog that I thought I'd answer myself... Do you remember how you developed ...

Harper Lee . I know at this point it's a bit of a cliche, but reading To Kill a Mockingbird has changed my life in some unknowable subt...

There is an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal about Aaron Copland's time in Hollywood. From the story: Copland's part-t...

So posts will be few and far between. Fear not, I'll return next week after a brief time off to spend time in my old hometown - Olympia,...

Wow! Me . Thanks, Whitney!

The Sunday Herald does a nice profile on Paris's famed bookstore Shakespeare & Company . I was there just last month. What a thrill!...

Nay! The New York Times has a brief story discussing how children should be introduced to Shakespeare at the age of 4, which, in some ways ...

There's a new way that teachers are having their students learn about the horrors of the Holocaust - through comic books . In other news...

Seattle's Stranger has a funny piece about an independent bookseller and the shoplifters he chases down Seattle's city streets, hig...