Katherine's Book Backyard

I have read J ames Joyce' s masterwork Ulysses . And honestly, all I can remember of it is Molly Bloom's joyously sensual "so...

I revere Shirley Jackson. I think "The Lottery" is a dandy short story but for my money, The Haunting of Hill House is the best ...

Walt Whitman and his friend  Peter Doyle I don't read much poetry now. Just about the only poetry I've read since leaving colleg...

I ran across the short story, "His Wife's Deceased Sister" a few years ago when I was participating in Brian Lindemuth's ...

Elizabeth George There really aren't enough women writing crime fiction but there are two writers--whose work could not be more diff...

I grew up in a house where books were appreciated. There were always books around and you could expect that birthdays and Christmas would br...

I discovered Dick Francis in high school. By that time his career as a crime writer was well underway so that  once I read his first novel...