The Wind off the Small Isles by Mary Stewart
More of a short story than a novel, I would recommend this only for Mary Stewart completionists and those who are traveling to Lanzarote. Her descriptions of the landscape of these volcanic islands are as immediate and evocative as anything she ever wrote about Crete or Corfu.
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Bush Transportation
“Is there anything you’d never leave home without?”
[Updated, 2014 version.] This mini-interview originally appeared on the Sisters in Crime Blog on December 6, 2010. SinC: Is there anything you'd never leave home without? DS: The thumb drive my books are backed up on. [Update: Stet.] SinC: What do you wish you had more time for? DS: Travel. [Update: Reading recreationally. As in…
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The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America by Louis P. Masur
On April 5, 1976, a white man attacked a black man with an American flag on a pole. By great good luck—or bad, depending on your point of view—Boston's Herald American photographer, Stanley Forman, was standing in the right place at the right time—or wrong, see above—with his finger on the shutter of his camera. The resulting photograph was reprinted around the world and won the Pulitzer Prize, and pretty much stopped busing in Boston dead in its tracks.
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Love Tom Gauld.
Digital Death
Essentially, you have to write another fricken’ will. So you know, go here to read the full article from Popular Mechanics.
Silk and Song II, or let the buckling and swashing continue!
Here’s the livestream from the Poisoned Pen’s launch of By the Shores of the Middle Sea event on November 29th.
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From my Twitter feed…
Well that only took 2,000 years. MT Church of England just voted in favour of allowing women bishops. http://t.co/CsqYfgMfXy @globeandmail — Soomi Kwak (@soomik) July 14, 2014
Reason enough for a trip to La Jolla.
Guy opens a map museum in La Jolla, California, based on his own personal collection of old maps. The next time I’m within spitting distance of SoCal, I am so there. Click here to read the rest of the story.