Beatdown: 1.) an emphatic or overwhelming defeat 2.) a violent physical beating Last week the Internet surged with stories of a young adult book that mysteriously hit the Number One spot on the sacrosanct New York Times YA best-seller list. After an investigation pursued by young adult authors and bloggers, the New York Times book review staff removed the suspect […]
True confession time: I recently read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, for the first time. That’s kind of embarrassing for a writer whose whole series takes place in Brooklyn neighborhoods and has an underlying theme of “What changes in Brooklyn and what doesn’t.” I don’t know how I missed it in my bookworm youth and I’m not
If there’s a crime movie I would enjoy more than the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by the inimitable Agatha Christie, I haven’t found it yet. I’ve seen the movie — starring Albert Finney as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot — a number of times. And even though
Michele Campbell is the author of It’s Always the Husband, which US Weekly called “a riveting, suspenseful tale of love, hate and murder.” It’s Always the Husband has been featured in Elle, Redbook, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, the New York Post, PopSugar, BookBub, and Culturalist, and reviewed by the Associated Press, Publisher’s Weekly, and many other publications. Campbell is a former
