Let me begin with a small confession: I bought "The Weight of Ink" by Rachel Kadish because of its beautiful cover and its intriguing title. A…

Nebraska has a rich literary history, and people all over the world have heard of Willa Cather, John Neihardt, Mari Sandoz, and Bess Streeter …

Rudyard Kipling was born in India to English parents as was Kim O’Hara, the impish protagonist of Kipling’s final novel, “Kim.” Kipling’s pers…

Literary fans went crazy when PBS ran the Ken Burns documentary about Ernest Hemingway. It is a three-part wonder that covers Hemingway’s craz…

After the introduction in my Everyman’s Library edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, there is a fascinating chronology o…

Slowly, yet surely, I am making my way through all the Pulitzer Prize winners in fiction. I just completed “Empire Falls,” by Richard Russo, w…

European styling elements give a neo-traditional ambiance to the elegant and spacious Charlottesville. Families that love to entertain will fi…

“The English Patient” by Michael Ondaatje is a beautifully written novel. It was published in 1992, but I just got around to reading it. I’d b…

I recently took part in a writing conference. The keynote speaker was a best-selling novelist who shall remain anonymous for this column. She …