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A person posted this question on Threads: Who are the five writers who made you? Oh please, that is such a limited way of looking at things...

It was in a junior high English class that I was first taught to make the opening sentence/paragraph of a story or essay a banger. That it s...

Eight Perfect Murders is a psychological thriller and mystery novel by Peter Swanson . The story follows Beacon Hill mystery bookstore owne...

I needed a lightweight read. OF FUCKING COURSE I DID (and do)! Don’t we all? I mean, fer fuck’s sake, the US is being stripped for parts by ...

While we Valhallans are here in the snow packed wilds of suburban Boston, Hillel and his lovely wife are visiting friends in Bangkok. Yep, T...

First – was it wrong for me to send Jen a YouTube clip of the Mary Tyler Moore episode Chuckles Bites the Dust while she was at her father...

With the windchill factor it’s 17 bloody degrees Fahrenheit outside this morning! I am NOT ready for this. Luckily, I don't have to vent...

Andy Warhol, Pink Car Crash Ever hate-read a book? Maybe a better description of what I just did is this – I stayed up well past midnight re...

‘What happened' is never what defines you in life; 'What you did next' is what defines you.  ~ Richard Osman , The Impossible Fo...