At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously....

But I wasn’t creeping.

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch...

…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre

The critic’s aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities that make it precious and by indicating the angle of visions...

Hester Lipp had written Where the Sidewalk Starts, an inexplicably acclaimed book of memoir, recounting — in severe language and strange, striking imagery — Lipp’s childhood and adolescence on a leafy suburban street in Burlington....

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.” – Colleen O’Brien

and…and…a gun. A big one.” – Colleen O’Brien

Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre

Submitted for your approval–the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and thegorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling

What you are is a freaking estrogen magnet.

Happy now? That fiery enough for you?