For the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference this February 26 I'll be offering a miniworkshop, "Top 10 Techniques of Creative Nonfictio...

My Mexico City amiga Cynthia Kaplan has started a business I am DELIGHTED to see: home cooked food for dogs. Oh, I have a lot to say on thi...

Here's the podcast from my recent reading and discussion of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire as part of the PEN Writers Aloud Read...

2010/12 Alissa Walker | Gelatobaby from LosAngeles/CreativeMornings on Vimeo . "Gelato Baby's" talk for Creative Mornings LA...

Professor of history and opera expert Margarita López Cano has just brought out a fascinating new book, Ópera y vida cotidiana en la Puebla...

Think art colony + sunshine + pedestrian paradise (if you're wearing flat shoes, that is)... Oh, all the pink puffs of bougainvilleas ag...

Apropos of William Moss Wilson's excellent piece for the NYT's on-line "Opinionator," a new post on my other blog, Maximil...

1. Finding Iris Chang by Paula Kamen Iris Chang was the author of three books, including the blockbuster The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten...

Laura Carmelita Bellmont Who will be teaching a 2 day pop-up paper engineering workshop at the Center for Book Arts in NYC, wow. (Yes, MSC,...

Twin Towers image by Gaylord Schanilec is from New York Revisited, The Grolier Club, 2002 One of the things I find most fascinating about p...