>Is It a Crime?

>Drinks for anyone but Elizabeth who can identify the musical quoted in the title. The Simmons program Crime and Misdemeanors is ending this morning with closing remarks from M.T. Anderson, and my responsibilities–save paper-grading–will be through. I’ve been twittering away from the back of the room, but it’s difficult to convey the extravagant genius and [...]

>Some enchanted evening . . .

>“Once you have found him, never let him go. Once you have found him . . . “

My new secret boyfriend

Like Leila, I’m in something of a reading slump, or in my case listening, as none of the several audiobooks I read on my commute seem to be doing it for me. The new Anna Pigeon mystery reminds me of why I gave up on Nevada Barr years ago (lurid and incoherent); Elizabeth and Mary [...]

>Craig Virden

>I was sorry to hear of Craig Virden’s death today. We first met when I was chair of the Margaret Edwards committee and he was Richard Peck’s publisher at what is now Random House. Craig was more excited than winner Peck (who got the news while transiting the Panama Canal, so there’s that). We weren’t [...]