Julia Keller

He had reached a dead end. It was all over. No way out. Hope? What a joke. But like a certain overgrown avenger named Jack Reacher, Lee Child made a...

Book tours are grueling, but not without their moments of sweetness. And so it was that Margaret McMullan, a graduate of Lake Forest High School and author of a captivating...

She did it. On her Web site — the well-designed, pastel-infused emilygiffin.com — Emily Giffin does something about which most authors can only daydream: The graduate of Naperville North High...

The best piece of writerly advice I've ever heard comes not from Samuel Johnson or Virginia Woolf or Annie Dillard — as acute as the literary ruminations of that trio...

Most people, when they decide to write a book, run the topic past a few close friends. If their friends nod vigorously and say, "Terrific! Go for it!" they proceed....

Even a bad TV series occasionally has its golden moments. I've always remembered a line in "Providence" (1999-2002), an otherwise listless drama about a woman named Syd (Melina Kanakaredes) who...

He must be stopped. I'm serious here. Somebody needs to notify the authorities, because Michael Harvey is bound to create havoc and mayhem with his new thriller, "The Third Rail"...