Apparently Dan Brown is the Elizabeth Gilbert of grocery-store thrillers. Too easy, vapid and pandering. Or worse. Based on the overwhelmingly condescending and high-brow dismissiveness his books might as well be 50 Shades of Simple Mysteries. Twilight for adults who romanticize European art and architecture, historical mystery and political-ish intrigue. Book lovers and literary snobs …
Some 20 years after I was bowled over by this sweeping saga at the historic McDonald Theatre in my hometown, I stumbled across the novel in one of my favorite second-hand stores. We had read much of Michael Ondaatje’s The Cinnamon Peeler in a college poetry workshop but for some inexcusable reason I had never …
The latest round of navel-gazing on Facebook while feigning humble reluctance is the Top 10 Most Influential Albums – post a different album every day for ten days and wax nostalgic about how this music takes you back to wherever you were at that point in your life – physically and emotionally. Reminisce. Take us …