Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.