I was faffing around with the remote control the other night, and I happened to see that Netflix had a movie adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE. I haven’t read that book since it creeped me out when I was…

Friend and fellow writer Dora Abel recommended that I watch THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS, so she and Sara and I did. As authors, we loved the visualizations of how we gather bits and pieces and slosh ’em around together until some of ’em stick…

Something this weekend made me think of Really Rosie, a musical based on Maurice Sendak’s children’s books. We all loved the half-hour television animation of it, and Charlie’s pet name for me became and remained Rosie. According to Charlie, I, like the Rosie in the…