Topic: Elinor Lipman

Page-Turners: April Book Reviews

NOBODY MOVE by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Who doesn't like a heist? He's a real loser-and if he doesn't pay his bookie soon, someone will bust his kneecaps. Then he meets Anita Desilvera, a hot one-night stand ...

Creating Believable Characters

Michael Adams ("Anniversaries in the Blood"), the novelist and writing professor, believes that setting is the most important element of any story. Did she grow up running around the woods in a small Southern town, or learning to conjugate Latin verbs in ...