1. We Write and Take Our Chances: An Interview with John Schulian 01/22/12
(Columns/The Athletic Supporter)

... kid at the Philly News named Gary Smith. And let me not forget those stylists who made specific sports their specialty: Tom Boswell and Peter Gammmons on baseball, Ray Didinger on football, Bob Ryan on ...

2. Beloved Books 12/25/11
(Past Columns/Past: Bookish Dreaming)

... Under Henry IV will always have a place in my heart,” he said. “It’s also a very good example of how not to edit a history book.” Lyn Battersby suggested Peter Pan. “It’s a book that I read as a child ...

3. There and Back Again 11/13/11
(Past Columns/Past: Book Brunch)

... hobbits. Nothing outside of that room could offer me more than Tolkien did, not even the bakery. I kept those library books as long as I could, devouring them. While I’ve now seen Peter Jackson’s Lord ...

4. Coming to a Bookstore Near You. Maybe. 09/18/11
(Past Columns/Past: Bibliopinions)

...  The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders The Shining by Stephen King The Witches by Roald Dahl The ...

5. Celebrating Shaun Tan 05/08/11
(Past Columns/Past: Bookish Dreaming)

... DM Cornish, Les Petersen, Shane Parker, Kathleen Jennings, Andrew McKiernan and more. We’re very rich in good artists. Then one year, I was a judge for the Young Adult section of the Aurealis Awards. ...

6. The (Book) Art of Great Italian Cooking 10/17/10
(Past Columns/Past: From the Ed Desk)

... will be the site of the St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading on Saturday, October 23. More than forty authors and neraly four dozen exhibitors will be at Bayboro Harbor from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, and ...

7. From Folio to Fantasy 08/22/10
(Past Columns/Past: Book Brunch)

... Is it as nourishing a meal as Peter Ackroyd's massive Shakespeare biography? Not quite, but it does do what The Washington Post said, makes “Shakespeare’s serenely beautiful lines buzz with a new life.” ...

8. Of Reading Books 08/01/10
(Past Columns/Past: Bibliopinions)

... are uncanny in their rich suggestiveness. They are Simon Lee and Goody Blake and the Idiot Boy and Peter Bell in a nutshell. And one of the fascinations of the letters—of Gray’s inimitable raciness, of ...

9. Coincidence or Influence? 02/07/10
(Past Columns/Past: Bibliopinions)

... Palaz of Hoon” or “The Emperor of Ice-Cream.” Of Stevens’s longer poems which might be good starters for the uninitiated, I would suggest “Sunday Morning” or “Peter Quince at the Clavier” or perhaps “The ...

10. The Book Sale 09/20/09
(Past Columns/Past: From the Ed Desk)

... over the place. A book on Peter Drucker is dated 1905, a book of Virginia Woolf’s letters is dated 1900, Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities is dated 1888, and an edition of Henry James’s ...

11. Days of Books and Reading 07/26/09
(Past Columns/Past: From the Ed Desk)

... rights, labor studies, media/journalism, Middle East, political science, U.S. history, and more. You’ll find bestsellers among their lists (Studs Terkel's Race and Peter Irons's May It Please the ...

12. Pair of Peacocks 06/21/09
(Past Columns/Past: Book Brunch)

... Lion about Andrew Jackson, Samuel Johnson by Peter Martin, Nixonland by Rick Pearlstein, the Lincoln biography Tried by War by James M. McPherson, and Graham Greene: A Life in Letters edited by Richard ...

13. Other People's Bookmarks 06/07/09
(Past Columns/Past: On Marking Books)

... but printed on “Rose Magna Print” paper, found in a 1965 Atheneum paperback edition of Peter Weiss’s The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of ...

14. Sexy Warrior Dreams 05/24/09
(Past Columns/Past: Book Brunch)

... Friar Tuck to Westen’s Robin Hood. En route he manages to mix it up with plenty of beers and rich women who have a yen to give him gifts. Michael’s brother Nate (Seth Peterson) is occasionally ...

15. Stories Out of Books 10/19/08
(Past Columns/Past: From the Ed Desk)

... October 25, Florida hosts its sixteenth annual St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading. With nearly sixty authors and writers, almost fifty vendors and a special Children’s Storyland with costumed ...

16. The Paradox of Banned Books Week 09/28/08
(Past Columns/Past: Readings)

... a good reminder that we live within the tension of two kinds of freedom: “freedom from” and “freedom to.” Whenever we climb on the bandwagon of the strutters and trumpeters, we ...

17. With Cadfael in Shrewsbury and Beyond 09/21/08
(Past Columns/Past: On Marking Books)

... it for next week. In the meantime, please enjoy this piece on Frank’s Shrewsbury Experience.   Once upon a time there was a real Brother Cadfael. Long before Ellis Peters made a fictional ...

18. Why Read Kafka? 07/13/08
(Past Columns/Past: Readings)

... German biographies—Peter Anders-Alt, Franz Kafka: Der Ewige Sohn (C.H. Beck) and Reiner Stach, Kafka: Die Jahre der Erkenntnis (the second volume of Stach’s biography, the first of which appeared ...

19. Breaking Open the Frozen Sea of Kafka 05/18/08
(Past Columns/Past: Readings)

... his biography encourages a fresh understanding of Kafka. In the meantime, two German biographies—Peter Anders-Alt, Franz Kafka: Der Ewige Sohn (C.H. Beck) and Reiner Stach, Kafka: Die Jahre ...

20. Medieval Bookmarks Lead the Way 04/27/08
(Past Columns/Past: On Marking Books)

... nature can be found in the library of Peterhouse College, Cambridge University. They were first described by R.H.B. Mynors in 1948 in a short article entitled “Some Bookmarkers at Peterhouse.” ...