By: Lois Leveen,
on 9/15/2014
There's this writer, William Shakespeare. Perhaps you've heard of him. He wrote this play, Romeo and Juliet. Maybe you've heard of it as well. It's about Juliet and... her wet nurse. At least, that's what the data junkies at FiveThirtyEight.com claim. As does Jim Carter, aka Mr. Carson from Downton Abbey. What is up with [...]
By: Lois Leveen,
on 5/18/2012
[Editor's note: Please join us at our Burnside location tonight at 7:30, where Lois Leveen will be presenting her new novel The Secrets of Mary Bowser. Click here for full event information.] Wayyyyy back in October, I found out my novel The Secrets of Mary Bowser would be published on May 15. But it was [...]
By: Lois Leveen,
on 5/17/2012
Fear of a red tractor. That is what keeps a novelist up at night. Remember the good ol' days when barber, surgeon, and dentist was a single occupation? Okay, maybe those days weren't so good. But at least back then, the dentist was probably too busy to be a literary critic, too. My dentist, however, [...]
