
Armistead Maupin hits the top of the charts again as Jennifer Kroot’s documentary “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin” proves a critics favorite. Read more.
Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.

Armistead Maupin hits the top of the charts again as Jennifer Kroot’s documentary “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin” proves a critics favorite. Read more.
By Barbara Falconer Newhall Join me on Nov. 5 at Book Passage Corte Madera for a lively panel on women in the world of books. One hundred years ago, before women had even won the right to vote, an organization called Women’s National Book Association — the WNBA — was founded to support women writers, […]
I’d like to shut my mouth for a minute and give gun owners a chance to take responsibility for how the Second Amendment they cherish is implemented. Read more.
I’ve got a new favorite author. It’s Ann Patchett. Step aside Marilynne Robinson and Annie Dillard, Leo Tolstoy and Richard Ford. You, too, Philip Roth. Read more.
I give up. I’m not going to get on my soap box and plead for better gun safety laws any more. It’s up to gun advocates to get that job done..Read more.
What do you do when you’ve got a grown-up kid in the hospital half a continent away? Jump on a plane? Stick by the phone? Read more.
I took his name when we got married. Would my husband like to return the favor by adding my name to his? Read more.