4/15/2025: My new column is full of salacious gossip, but it's all about me. Read Hope Springs Eternal, Especially on Spring Break, in the Baltimore Fishbowl.

4/15/2025: I'll be recording an audiobook version of First Comes Love for Penguin Random House Audio! Just in time for the 30th anniversary next year. How did this happen? I wrote to them and asked! Asking is good!

4/15/2025: Great coverage of "I Know About A Thousand Things" 

•  We are interviewed by Ned Buskirk on You're Going to Die, a podcast
•  We are interviewed by Liz Hazen in the Baltimore Fishbowl
•  Lovely article in the Austin American-Statesman
•  Award-winning column by Craig Garnett in the Uvalde Leader News

4/15/2025: Almost all I do all day is sit on the couch and read, which is why there are so many of these...
•  Spring 2025 roundup, in Oprah Daily
•  January 2025 roundup, in Oprah Daily
•  Great new memoirs in audio, for Kirkus Reviews
•  John Green interview, for Kirkus Reviews
•  Profile of Mayumi Inaba, brilliant Japanese cat lady, for Kirkus Reviews
•  Q&A with Susan Muaddi Daraj, for Baltimore FIshbowl
•  Mona Acts Out, by Mischa Berlinski, in the Mpls Star Tribune
•  Show Don't Tell, by Curtis Sittenfeld, in the Boston Globe
•  Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks, in the Boston Globe
•  The Ruins, by Steve Wick, in Newsday
•  Johnny Careless, by Kevin Wade, in Newsday
•  We Lived On the Horizon, by Erika Swyler, in Newsday
•  The Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami, in the Mpls Star Tribune
•  Tilda is Visible, by Jane Tara, in the Mpls Star Tribune
•  New Joni Mitchell books, in the Washington Post
•  No Turning Back, by Alma de Cespedes, in the Washington Post

1/6/2025: In the spirit of the ostrich, I offer something small and silly. Check out Better the Next Day on Batlimore Fishbowl.

1/6/2025: Useful lists from last year:
• Eight great audiobooks, in Oprah Daily
• Best celebrity memoirs, in Oprah Daily
• Great memoirs, in Oprah Daily
• Most addictive novels, in Oprah Daily

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