By the time I got to high school in 1966 I was out of my mind. My mother had died; my father had gotten married again, choosing a woman who ...

“History is written by the victors.” While we cannot attribute this aphorism to a specific source with any degree of certainty (some claim...

It always came to me as an image, staying and never dying, until it blossomed into ideas for a novel. I grew up in Hue, Vietnam, imbued...

It was with a heavy heart that I read, in the  New York Times, of Judith  Appelbaum’s death on July 25th at the age of 78. At the same tim...

Joan Baum is a recovering academic from the City University of New York, who spent 25 years teaching literature and writing. Joan has a long...

My reading habit was mostly self-inflicted, though heavily influenced by my father's collection of boyhood books, notably the works ...

Every published author will tell you that a great copy editor is a gift from God, and have horror stories about those more in Satan’s camp...