Death Rarely Takes a Holiday: ‘The Friend’

March 7, 2019

A WRITER SORTS OUT HER LOVER’S SUICIDE IN SIGRID NUNEZ’S INTIMATE, INCANDESCENT NOVEL. REVIEWED BY KITTY KELLEY If “The Friend” by Sigrid Nunez, a 2018 National Book Award winner, slipped […]

Annapolis, Eastern Shore Offer Festive Antidotes to Winter


Bored with winter? Fear not. Festive antidotes are happening in Annapolis and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, all helping to ring in spring. Lights, cameras and plenty of action will take […]

‘The Library Book’: An Irresistible Homage to the World of Words

December 7, 2018

As a writer who reveres libraries and genuflects to librarians, I was predisposed to embrace “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. I just didn’t expect to fall in love so […]