January 18, 2013
In November 2012, I flew down to the beautiful island of Aruba, just north of Venezuela, and spent four days at the Aruba Marriott Resort & […]
November 26, 2012
Every now and then a movie comes along that captures the zeitgeist with wit and intelligence. Skyfall, the latest James Bond flick, has done that in spades. […]
October 14, 2012
Why would a Queens girl root for the Bronx Bombers? It’s a question I’ve been asked many times, and it’s usually accompanied by a look of […]
October 9, 2012
I have been AWOL from this blog for a little while, and subscribers to my quarterly e-newsletter know the reason. A wonderful literary agent read the […]
September 11, 2012
In honor of 9/11, I am posting links to two related blog entries that I wrote last year. On this somber anniversary, with its sunny skies and […]
August 31, 2012
After folks find out that I’m writing a novel about the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, we usually get to talking about that event and […]
August 25, 2012
On its surface, Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a documentary about Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old master sushi chef whose tiny ten-seat restaurant—located underground, in a Tokyo […]
August 17, 2012
Most books are appreciated purely because of their content, but in the case of Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman, not only did I enjoy […]
August 11, 2012
A good friend of mine who works in television passed on her press copy of Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ A Sense of Direction, and I’m sure she sent it […]
August 8, 2012
The folks at the Saveur.com website have just launched “Room Service,” a new section of the site devoted casinotions.com to food-centric reviews of hotels around the […]