This season’s literary highlights — from book clubs and author talks to a professional headshot workshop
Kim Baldwin
A special shout-out to Ann Patchett, the Patron Saint of Book Recs
Even the best of us get certain words confused. For me, it’s exasperate and exacerbate. Whichever of those words I’m supposed to use, I’m usin…
If you’re lucky, you live long enough to slow down. Let the youth have their CrossFit boxes and Barry’s Bootcamps. You and I? We’re going to t…
“Respect the caucus!” Mayor Freddie O’Connell shouted into a headset mic on opening night of the Belcourt’s 1999 Retrospective. The mayor — na…
The book that pulled me into Between the Covers is That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon. I arrived at Parnassus Books for the book club dis…
Earlier this year, The Porch celebrated its 10th anniversary with an event called DELIGHT. These annual fundraisers tend to have well-known au…
I drove from Nashville to Santa Fe, N.M., last summer, going through Texas on the way there and Colorado and Kansas on the way back. I was rem…
Let me tell you about Betsy Phillips. In the early Aughts, Phillips blogged about the wild dogs of Whites Creek, and in a way she still does —…