97 Orchard: The Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman is a valuable addition to your library if you’re interested in how normal people lived in the past. Not the aristocracy. Real people. Ms. Ziegelman is the director of the Tenement Museum’s culinary center. Her well-researched book covers […]
Work on the Thurber book is proceeding apace. Most of the footnotes are done, and I’m working on a map of Columbus, Ohio, when Thurber lived there. One biographer mentioned that his family moved no less than 14 times during his childhood, yet apart from a few years spent in Washington, D.C., they stayed within […]
Now that we’ve been doing public appearances, we’ve fallen into a pattern. Summer’s the high time with frequent weekend events. There’s surprise events, like signings at Cupboard Maker Books. We slow down a little in the fall, and come to a halt at Small Business Saturday after Thanksgiving. After that, there’s no events at all. […]
Welcome to the fifth installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he takes on Rip Van Winkle. It was not many days after the amusing discomfiture […]
Welcome to the fourth installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he matches wits again with his nemesis LeCoq, involving the solution of an historical mystery. […]
Welcome to the third installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here, and the second one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he meets the Arthurian knight Lohengrin, who needs Homes’ help […]
Hey folks. Isn’t this amazing? An actual event post delivered on time! Peschel press is right in the middle of the last two signing events of 2019, so I’ll tell you about what we did Saturday and what will be doing next Saturday. We were at Cupboard Maker Books in Enola for two hours signing, […]
Welcome to the second installment of “The Adventures of Shylock Homes” by John Kendrick Bangs. (Read the first one here.) Bangs wrote 10 of these installments of Shylock’s adventures in the underworld for American newspapers in 1903. In this episode, he meets with other detectives, including LeCoq, a fictional detective created by Émile Gaboriau, a […]
(Not to be confused with “Dog Day Afternoon,” which is an old movie. Ask your grandparents about it.) Sunday, Deb Beamer opened the doors of Mechanicsburg Mystery for an event that introduced attendees to seven authors, including our own Odessa Moon. Each author talked about their books, read an excerpt, and answered questions. It was […]