Book Club I suspect many readers have had the experience of reading a book which inspires the desire to write a book. In my case, it was The Infinity of Lists  by Umberto Eco, for reasons too prosaic to mention. I also suspect many writers write directly or indirectly in response to books they have read. Someone, who might have been George Steiner but I cannot remember, said that most books are responses to other books, that books in a sense converse with one another. I have

The wordsmith finds great joy in identifying the precisely correct word for a particular situation. What to do when that precisely...

I received an interesting gift from a fellow bibliophile this past Christmas. The box was labeled “A Novel Way to Tell Time,” and inside...