Best-selling novelist Ron Hansen stood in the nave of Chicago's St. Vincent de Paul Church on a spring afternoon under the towering stained-glass windows. Illuminated by the high sun in the western sky, the brightly colored glass told story after story - about Jesus Christ, about prophets and saints, about miracles and revelations.
Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and areas of the outer continental shelf, currently off-limits, would not reduce our reliance on imported oil nor lower gas prices, as I explained last week.
Members of the Junior Shag Association who gathered this week for the Junior SOS event in North Myrtle Beach.
They also wowed a gathering of senior citizens at Myrtle Beach Manor Assisted Living Center with their expertise .
Elizabeth Berg has a slew of best-sellers and honors to her credit. Her 1994 novel, ``Talk Before Sleep,'' a gut-punchy examination of female friendship in the face of adversity, is the kind of ``you-have-to-read- this'' book women pass along from one to another. Some of her recent novels have tended toward the saccharine, but ``The Day I Ate'' once again gives us Berg at her tart best.
This anthology of first rough drafts of history from the storied news weekly is not only a chronicle of our era in its own voices: It's a robust reaffirmation of the printed word.
There are two unorthodox things about this summer's most adorable chick-lit book: It's a work of nonfiction, and it's written by a guy.
Steel, who turns 61 in August, doesn't need fame: Her name is virtually synonymous with the romance novel. She doesn't need cash: Some 570 million of her books are in print. What she wants is a Garbo moment: to be left alone, to write more.
Nerd Girls founder and Tufts engineering professor Karen Panetta is taking the battle against engineering's nerd stigma to a national stage, working with independent filmmakers to bring the Nerd Girls to reality TV and the big screen.
Far be it from me to make fun of anyone else's occupation. After all, when you've been paid to write about charcoal-lined pads that you wear in your underpants to neutralize flatulence odors, it seems presumptuous to question anybody else's job.
If you're going to wear swimsuits from the new Tibi and Custo Barcelona collections, you're got to be comfortable with making a real splash.
Together you fell in love. And of course, you thought you'd live happily ever after. That's why, when he first broached the topic of the prenuptial agreement, you were surprised, sure, but you weren't hurt. And to prove you weren't there for the money, you went ahead and signed it: with a flourish, without a second glance. Now that the marriage is over, you realize you may have given up more than you ever intended.
