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Charles Dickens, Claire Tomalin, and backing it up 17 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
I’ve just finished Claire Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens, which came out a couple of years ago and had been sitting on my nightstand in a TBR stack. I was really looking forward to seeing what...
Charles Dickens, George Zimmerman, and Trayvon Martin 22 Jul 2013 | 10:01 am
Instead of watching the George Zimmerman trial, I was reading “Little Dorrit.” The long 19th century novel by Charles Dickens had been on my list for a LONG time, and it had been a few years since I’d...
Progress report: Dickens down and articles published 9 Jul 2013 | 08:02 am
Recently, after a couple of years of spending way too much time thinking and talking about it, I finally buckled down and read another Dickens novel. The reason it took me so long to get around to it ...
3 wonderful website reasons why I don’t always read a book a week 15 Feb 2013 | 11:05 am
I surf the ‘net more than I think I should before and after work. In doing so, I’ve found some wonderful sites and writers.
American Bar Association in Dallas 6 Feb 2013 | 10:47 am
I’m looking forward to covering ethics programs for the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct at the Midyear Meeting of the American Bar Association this week in Dallas. You can download and...
Kitty Genovese, nonfiction, and truthiness 1 Feb 2013 | 10:43 am
Presenting false testimony in court is a crime--it's called perjury. I think there's an analogy between law and literature here, and I'm going to be every bit as judgmental with respect to literature ...
Elena Ferrante is my #FridayReads AGAIN 25 Jan 2013 | 09:39 am
I’ve written before of how powerful I’ve found the novels of the pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante. When I noticed her latest book, “My Brilliant Friend,” on my local library’s new books shel...
Crazy clients? Read Elena Ferrante’s Days Of Abandonment 15 Jan 2013 | 10:01 am
By inviting us inside the head of her divorcing narrator in “The Days of Abandonment,” the pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante lends support to an experienced lawyer’s view that all divorcing c...
From 2012 to 2013 2 Jan 2013 | 10:01 am
During 2012, I averaged not quite a book a week and hope to increase that number in 2013. Two exciting literary events happened to me this year. At LauraPalooza 2012, a semi-scholarly conference on La...
Advice from Miguel de Cervantes for the new year 2 Jan 2013 | 07:58 am
Plunge forward, as Don Quixote did, with joy when presented with a seemingly insurmountable and extraordinarily horrible challenge.
