Keeping a Series Fresh
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Henrik Ibsen Museum, Oslo, Norway
High winds and choppy seas prevented us from docking at our first scheduled port on this trip. Having an extra day in Oslo, Norway, allowed us to visit the Henrik Ibsen Museum, the restored last home of Norway’s best known and most revered literary figure. Henrik and his wife Suzannah lived here from 1895 until
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The 20 In-Flight Crime Movie Options on This Airplane, Ranked This article amused me because, by the time you read this, I will have spent some huge number of hours flying from the West Coast of the U.S. to Amsterdam to embark on a 6-week cruise. As much as I enjoy traveling, I hate these
On Vacation
Today my husband and I embark on a vacation that will take us up the coast of Norway, to Iceland, to Greenland, across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada, then down the east coast of North America to New York City. Since we will be at sea most of the time, internet accessibility will be spotty
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A Deep Dive into the Mind of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson “The rise and fall of the Beach Boys leader shows how crucial the brain’s executive function is to creativity” Occasioned by the death of Brian Wilson on June 11, 2025, Scientific American has updated this article from 2017 (which was itself an update
15 Years Ago on Notes in the Margin
Related Post: A look back at the archives reveals that I didn’t publish much content during June 2010. That doesn’t surprise me, since I was concentrating on finishing my dissertation so that I could graduate the following summer. Here’s the single substantive piece for that month, from June 5, 2010: The Psychology of Reading: A
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Linwood Barclay on the Art of Making Everyday Things Terrifying “Making people fear things in their everyday lives in ways they never did before, that’s the dream of every writer of suspenseful tales,” prolific thriller author Linwood Barclay tells us. How the far right seeks to spread its ideology through the publishing world Jason Wilson,
6 Degrees of Separation
This month we start with Kate’s pick for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction, All Fours by Miranda July. first degree The most recent novel I’ve read that features a number in its title is The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan. second degree I’ve recently read a novel by another author named
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On Crime Novels & Thrillers
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