Author Archives: kara

About kara

We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.

Why do Writers Drink?

Posted on July 21, 2013 by kara

via the guardian by Blake Morrison Certainly Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald thought so. But, wonders Blake Morrison, are the words on the page there despite and not because of alcohol?

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Posted on July 18, 2013 by kara

dreamy hardy boys library

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On the Nightstand

Posted on July 18, 2013 by kara

  Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

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Twin Spell

Posted on July 5, 2013 by kara

Bad twins, good twins, identical twins, evil twins, separated at birth twins, mystery solving twins, warring twins, misunderstood twins, twins that are not twins, Romulus and Remus, Artemis and Apollo, and Castor and Pollux, I loved books about twins. I wanted … Continue reading →

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Waiting for this

Posted on June 1, 2013 by kara

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls Anton DiSclafani. Riverhead, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59448-640-1 From Publishers Weekly: The setup for this debut novel is delectable: it’s 1930, the country is tumbling into depression, and 15-year-old Thea has done something bad enough … Continue reading →

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On the Nightstand

Posted on May 27, 2013 by kara

  The Smart One by Jennifer Close Knopf, April 2, 2013

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Posted on May 21, 2013 by kara

I hate all crocodiles, except for one. Loveable Lyle was first spotted lounging in a bathtub. The Primms have moved into their new Upper East Side brownstone. Mrs Primm hears strange noises from the bathroom and makes the horrifying discovery … Continue reading →

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Trixie artwork.

Posted on May 8, 2013 by kara

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Posted on May 8, 2013 by kara

In the age-old battle between book and bath, humans have tried many things: the reading tray, the deftly balance towel, the take-your-chances method. An eight-year-old girl genius has solved this conundrum, inventing a simple yet ingenious technique for safeguarding books from … Continue reading →

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