John Warner

I am concerned about how my book club scheduled for next Thursday at the time of this writing is going to go. Given that I've been telling people what to...

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson — musician, author, award-winning documentarian — is going to have his own publishing imprint, AUWA, nested under MCD books, which is part of one of the Big...

By nature, I am not prone to nostalgia. In fact, it's something of the opposite. I'm inherently suspicious of the pull of the past, and the idea that times of...

A recent week in March was filled with an unusual amount of travel as I did a series of three public talks in three different cities over four days. No...

Do you remember that old Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings song, "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys?" The opening stanza goes like this: Mamas, don't let...

There used to be a cliché that every lawyer had a draft of a novel stashed in a desk drawer somewhere, the joke being that deep down they wanted to...

Because I want to make sure that the person to whom I'm recommending a book will at least like the book, I often shy away from recommending "weird" books. By...

When I became aware of the recently released novel, "Big Swiss" by Jen Beagin, I went to Amazon. While I never buy books from Amazon, I often use its database...