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What I’m Reading
Janet Maslin recently reviewed in the New York Times Michael Connelly’s and John Grisham’s new novels, which came out about the same time. She points out “coincidences,” including Grisham’s creation of...
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New York Pandas
Ms. Maloney with a panda during her visit to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan Province, China, in August 2014. Representative Carolyn Maloney wants to bring a pair of pandas...
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Turning New York Life into Fiction
It’s always an honor to have my work included in Janet Rudolph’s Mystery Readers Journal, and I was especially pleased to see my “Turning New York Life into Fiction” in the current issue, Volume 32,...
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My friend, Gil Kaplan
I just attended the touching, moving celebration of the life of Gil Kaplan, who died January 1 of this year. I worked for Gil in the late 1970s, as a writer for Institutional Investor magazine, which...
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Will & Me
Shakespeare is all around us. This year, we are reminded that he died in 1616, four-hundred years ago. Much literature has been recently published. I add the memoir of a remarkable woman who tells the...
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Birthday Celebrations in Italy
As part of celebrating Reba’s big birthday, we went to north Italy, Lakes Como and Maggiore, for a flower garden tour. Flowers galore! Azaleas, Rhododendrons, roses everywhere, poppies of all colors,...
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Degree Day!
Reba modeling her academic robe, using her Harvard hood. She’ll switch to the CUNY Graduate Center blue hood today when she receives her honorary degree.
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A Literary Adventure
A good friend, Joan Kaskell, recently gave me two books published by The Library of America on the work of women crime writers of the 1940s and 1950s. I was delighted, and even more so when she...
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We saw Sylvia, a musical, and laughed with the rest of the audience. (If you like dogs go see it!) Next, we saw two serious films. We enjoyed Bridge of Spies. Tom Hanks was his own heroic and wonderful...
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