November 30, 2017
Because That’s Real Life: An Evening with Margaret Atwood
On November 16, Margaret Atwood, the grande dame of all things literary (and of dystopian nightmares that have revealed themselves to be unnervingly prescient) graced Cleveland with her presence at […]
May 30, 2016
The Books We Keep: Part Two
Getting married ushered in a new stage of dealing with things—beginning with registry gifts. Though I had declared I was not going to change—I was still the same person, same […]
January 31, 2012
Monoculture : : Poetry
1) I’ll admit to having an overwhelming fondness for books on finance, and one of the big reasons for that is almost certainly because I read Lewis Hyde’s The Gift […]
December 8, 2011
Mix Tape: Gifting and (Unabashedly) Regifting
Check out these holiday gifts for grammar geeks (not grammar geek’s, mind you). An anonymous artist has been leaving exquisitely detailed little paper sculptures in libraries and museums all over […]