A veteran copyeditor studies the practice of diagramming sentences in a charming and funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities.
Steeped in the Palmer Method of Handwriting she learned in Catholic school, Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed "penmanship nut" who loves the act of taking pen to paper. So when she discovered that schools today forego handwriting drills in favor of teaching something called "keyboarding," it gave her pause: "There is a widespread belief that, ...
One family's secrets, betrayals, and hopes, woven together through four generations into a tapestry of memory and love. A humorous novel of power and grace.
Emily Lime lives in the Brooklyn community of Williamsburg, home of painters, sculptors, photographers, little old ladies, a terrifying rapist, Polish dentists--and Marcus Mead, Emily's dog-walker. Emily and Marcus share not only a love of animals but a fascination with palindromes, Scrabble, crosswords, and word games of all kinds. Emily would ...
Christine Ward, a painter, is on the train from New Haven to New York when she spots a name written in the datebook of the woman sitting next to her: Orin Pierce, the name of an old friend from college who was killed in a car crash 20 years before. With very little to go on, she obsessively hunts down the man bearing that name--a middle-aged New ...
This is a novel about a young woman named Anna Nolan: her painful adolescence in upstate New York following the death of her mother, her struggle to become a cabaret singer in Boston during the Vietnam years, her doomed relationship with a man she doesn't love, and her unrelenting, obsessional devotion to an old flame--the troubled, enigmatic Will.
When Wynn Tynan, at 17, relinquishes her baby for adoption, she thinks she has closed a painful episode in her life. But an unexpected tragedy causes the event to surface, with repercussions that will last for many years. Looking back on what has happened, Wynn asks herself the five necessary questions (beginning with "who were you then?" and ...
Robert Sinclair and his wife, May, move to New York City's Gramercy Park area at the height of the Great Depression. Robert is a playwright, May an aspiring actress. As Robert attempts to begin his career and to keep the love of his glamorous wife, he also struggles to overcome the insomnia that plagues him--though, paradoxically, it's on his solo ...
Emily Lime lives in the Brooklyn community of Williamsburg, home of painters, sculptors, photographers, little old ladies, a terrifying rapist, Polish dentists--and Marcus Mead, Emily's dog-walker. Emily and Marcus share not only a love of animals but a fascination with palindromes, Scrabble, crosswords, and word games of all kinds. Emily would ...
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