What exciting endeavour unites the creative efforts of a forensic pathologist, a true crime expert, the novelist behind the award winning French film, “Tell No One” and the singer songwriter for the band The Decemberists? Look out… Kathy Reichs, Gregg Olsen, Harlan Coben and Colin Meloy, three authors and a musician, have all temporarily turned [...]
I am truly Wonderstruck. (Let’s be clear here and take note: I’m not referring to Taylor Swift’s new fragrance.) I sat down to take a look at Brian Selznick’s new book, Wonderstruck, and, blink, found myself turning page 608 of a most gratifying mysterious puzzle of worlds-within-worlds set in New York City circa 1977. Wonderstruck [...]
Words. Even in a moment when we think none will suffice, we are searching for them. The world of words is subject to the same buffeting and jostling as every other person, place or thing in the public realm: some words stick around forever and some disappear, tossed away like the ‘cassette player’ to keep [...]
