Rough Edges

Even more than usual, 2007 has been a year of peaks and valleys for us. To get the valleys out of the way first . . . In January, my mother ...

This novel from 1953 is different in several respects from the usual Perry Mason yarn. For one thing, the trial in which Mason is involved ...

MY FAVORITE WIFE is another Cary Grant comedy. (One of my daughters has quite a few of Grant’s movies on DVD.) In this one, his scientist ...

To paraphrase what I said about THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, if you liked the first two Rush Hour movies, then you ought to like RUSH HOUR 3. Odd-co...

I’m definitely not the target audience for THE NANNY DIARIES, the film based on a popular novel about a young woman’s experiences as a nanny...

I’ve been a fan of the Simpsons ever since the characters first appeared on The Tracy Ullman Show nearly twenty years ago. I think that ove...

I never was a fan of the Scooby-Doo cartoons. They came along after I was too old to watch them as a kid, and my kids never watched them muc...

It’s taken me a while to get around to reading this book, but I’m certainly glad I did. Many of you have probably already read QUEENPIN, Me...

Today is the 31st anniversary of my first fiction sale, a confession yarn to the now long-defunct magazine INTIMATE STORY. I’ve written abo...

I'm pleased to report that DUST DEVILS has made Bruce Grossman's list of top ten crime novels of 2007, as reported over on Bookgasm...