For many of us, letter writing has been replaced by emailing and texting. But not for the protagonist in Virginia Evans’ new epistolary novel (a book written through letters), The Correspondent. Sybil Van Antwerp, a mother and grandmother, a friend and reader of books, retired from a distinguished career in law, communicates with people from…
Romance novels often have a meet/cute, that moment the couple meets. Some romances are termed “grumpy/sunshine” because one of the pair can be grouchy in his or her demeanor while the other is more, well, sunshiny. The protagonists in The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison come together with a meet/cute. When Ruth and Abe are…
If you had to take an in-depth test about the Constitution, could you pass it? If you are like me (and not an attorney or another who works in a law-related field) you can only recall the Cliffs Notes version. Yet, each time a Supreme Court case in the news alludes to the Constitution or a…
It has often been noted that humanity comes together during times of crisis. Perhaps you have experienced this in your own life. The two weeks from March 30th through April 13th, 2020 were difficult days for people all throughout the United States, but especially for New Yorkers. Case numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths in…
