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The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2021
For thirty years, Glenn Stout, the founding editor of The Best American Sports Writing series, has read–or at least started to read—a seemingly endless pile of articles searching for the most exceptional sports stories of the year. That hunt seemingly ended when the publishing company was purchased and the new owners canceled that series…
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The Guardian: The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Guardian: The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/14/the-best-recent-and-thrillers-review-roundup
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Article: 10 Classic Crime Stories That Have Just Entered the Public Domain in 2022
10 Classic Crime Stories That Have Just Entered the Public Domain in 2022 https://flip.it/Pbeef_
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Spilling the Beans: Abra Berens Dishes on Legumes, Beans, and More in Her Latest Cookbook
A much maligned vegetable belonging, along with peas and lentils, to the vegetable class called legumes, beans are about as low on the food chain as you can go in terms of respect. Kids snicker at rhymes about beans and the gas they produce and sayings like “not worth a hill of beans” signifies…
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History Through the Headsets
It didn’t take long for Notre Dame senior defensive signal-callers Reed Gregory (No. 50) and John Mahoney (No. 25) to get to yes when then-defensive backs coach Terry Joseph asked if they wanted to write about what most likely will remain the most unique time period in the school’s football history. The two, both members…
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Florence LaRue: Grace in Your Second Act
“People ask me when I’m going to retire,” says Florence LaRue, “and I say retire? I know I can’t do what I did when I was 70 but I do have the energy to keep moving and that’s what I’m going to keep doing.” LaRue, now 80-years-old, is certainly on the move. In…
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All Her Little Secrets
Most of us keep secrets from those we love—whether it’s simply misdirection about how much that new dress really cost or an outright lie like what really happened at the work party your partner couldn’t attend. But in Wanda Morris’s All Her Little Secrets, attorney Ellice Littlejohn has taken it to a new…
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The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White
Karen White and I are talking about ghosts, particularly the ghosts haunting Melanie Middleton Trenholm in White’s latest novel, The Attic on Queen Street, the last in the series set in haunted Charleston, South Carolina. “Do you believe in ghosts?” she asks. Not really, I reply, but I also don’t like staying in places that…
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The Ice Coven: Nordic Noir
When we last saw Helsinki police officer Jessica Niemi, she had solved a heinous spate of murders and escaped—or so it seemed—the clutches of a coven of witches. But alas, life isn’t always so easily wrapped up in a happy ever after ending and poor Jessica has to deal with those darn witches…
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