Fresh on the heels of winning the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Crouching Dragon (a Harry-Potterish bit of magic realism set in a haunted French castle), comes a slightly more grounded use of European art,... Read More

The percentage of dotcom sites on the Internet have more than doubled over the last five years. How to Dotcom is a good starting point for all the people who are still unsure of how to begin commerce on the Web. A dotcom is a commercial... Read More

Setting off on her journey with T.S. Eliot’s quote, “intolerable shirt of flame / Which human power cannot remove,” this author goes, and stays where the heat is hottest. Immediately, certain geographical coordinates are... Read More

Thiel’s ear for meter is astute, and her skill at forms is attested to by prize after prize, not to mention two chapbooks from the formalist small press Aralia; her mainstream narrative voice is a natural for the aptly named Story Line... Read More

How President Clinton-a “shape-shifter” on policy issues and the possessor of a character weak enough to have probably destroyed former presidencies-has been able to survive and prosper as a “new Democrat” in a decidedly... Read More

“Nineteen years old, married six months to a dairy farmer, and five months pregnant, I was hiding in a feed room, as a cow was being stabbed with a pitchfork. The blood was running in rivulets down her legs, making puddles around her... Read More

“You can get…anything you want…at Alice’s Restaurant.” Those coming of age in the late 1960s probably remember folksinger Arlo Guthrie’s eighteen-minute tune relating his Thanksgiving 1965 arrest for littering in a small... Read More

Eat a low-fat, healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and grains. Decrease the fat in your diet. Exercise, or at least stay active. Make it a part of your life. Do not use the word diet. Change your attitude and your habits. None of... Read More