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A gossip queen dissecting politics? A political pundit musing about sports? A romance novelist waxing poetic on music? You read it here first... see what your favorite literary personalities have to say about life beyond books.

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By Shirley O. Corriher - November 21, 2008

When I come up with a really great recipe, or figure out how or why something happens, I can’t wait to share it with everybody. I just get really excited if I can make something taste better or have a better texture or just be a lot better than it was before. My Chocolate Crinkle Cookies, for example, I roll them in regular table sugar before I roll them in confectioners’...

The Assyriologist

By Elizabeth Aston - November 20, 2008

Why does one become what one has become? Chance? Fate? Now, if there were a parallel universe where I could have an alternative career, I’d be an Assyriologist. After university, clueless about my future career, and too green to know what I now know, which is that careers are things that happen to you, I went with a couple of friends for vocational guidance. We were set a...

I sit. I sit. I run.

By Chris Evans - November 20, 2008

Most days, I sit. A lot. As an editor and a writer I sit at my desk, or I sit at the library, or I sit in the back of a cab and work. I have tried reading and jotting notes while walking, but that resulted in painful discoveries, discoveries like lampposts are stubborn s.o.b.s that absolutely refuse to get out of the way even when they’re clearly in the wrong. And so, I sit...

The Patience of a Cubs Fan

By Sunny Schwartz - November 20, 2008

Baseball is my lifeline. As a youth, Wrigley Field was my sanctuary. The Cubs -- the losers with heart -- were my saints with dirty faces. As an adult, I moved to San Francisco and adopted the Giants even though they hadn’t won a world series since 1954. I have kept the faith and they have kept me hopeful. During the 2002 World Series we needed heroes more than ever. The last...

What I’m Passionate About

By Robert Draper - November 19, 2008

I have a longtime obsession with the white wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in northeastern Italy. They are the country's best but largely unknown to Americans, and it's possible to spend a month in that border region (Austria to the north, Slovenia to the east) and not hear a word of English. The rolling vineyards are spectacular, and the wines they produce have a crisp, aromatic...

By The Grace of Which We Will Ken What We Need to Ken

By Holly Black - November 18, 2008

I remember my first cup of coffee very clearly. I was about eight and my mother made it for me with instant granules dissolved in hot water and a lot of sugar and milk. I drank a mug of that watered down stuff every morning before school. Be it the bitter dregs of a late-night pot at the diners I frequented in high school or the free trade, shade-grown beans ground and brewed...

After a 5-day Workshop at Omega Institute

By Brian L. Weiss - November 18, 2008

I love being a facilitator for personal transformation in my patients and students. There is no greater honor or blessing. Especially in the longer and more intensive workshops I teach, to watch the moment of insight or the realization of physical or psychological healing is both exalting and humbling. At that moment I am as much the student as I am the teacher. This is...

By Steven Barnes - November 17, 2008

One of life's most commonly voiced complaints is that the sense of adventure and possibility has fled. Jobs become traps, relationships exhaust their umph, and our bodies lose their sense of infinite potential. Life, art, work, and love go flat. The answer is to remember the little boy, or little girl inside your adult personality. Deep inside, you're the same kid who used...

By Allison DuBois - November 17, 2008

Well there were no fancy vacations for the Dubois Family this summer. We did however spend a lot of time at our cabin in Pinetop, AZ. Our girls took a golf clinic and competed in a kid’s golf tournament. They were so proud and we were proud of them. Joe and I spent a lot of time with good friends and frequented our favorite German restaurant, The Munich Haus. Their cheddar...

The Art & Science of Collaboration

By Tananarive Due - November 17, 2008

Most writers prefer to work alone, and I am no exception. A closed door is my creative sanctuary, as good as a mountain cabin. But some projects are bigger than one writer. And in 1997, I met a man named Steven Barnes who would become my collaborator in every way—as a husband, a parent and a co-author. He is my sounding board for solo projects, and we also co-author...

Ellen Hopkins, Believer?

By Ellen Hopkins - November 17, 2008

If you read my books without reading my blogs, you might have a rather inaccurate view of who I am as a (yes, gasp!) “believer.” The characters in my books often question their faiths or wonder whether there is, in fact, a God. I was raised in a solid Protestant household, and my beliefs have evolved from that. Still, many a good church-goer would consider my views...

By Ellen Hopkins - November 17, 2008

If you read my books without reading my blogs, you might have a rather inaccurate view of who I am as a (yes, gasp!) “believer.” The characters in my books often question their faiths or wonder whether there is, in fact, a God. I was raised in a solid Protestant household, and my beliefs have evolved from that. Still, many a good church-goer would consider my views...

By Caroline Myss - November 17, 2008

My love for history and mysticism are without a doubt my deepest passions. The study of military history combined with the history of mysticism has provided me with my very grounded view of human nature. Without a sense of history, the present moment is nothing more than a floating mirage disconnected from its formative events. In working with thousands of people through...

Personal Guide to Paris

By Fabiola Santiago - November 17, 2008

Dear Paris lover, I could write another book on Paris alone, but here are some highlights of my favorite places (all of them reasonably priced and loaded with French charm): My favorite place to stay in Paris: ? When I’m not renting an apartment in the bustling Latin Quarter, I stay at Hotel Du Continent, 30 Rue du Mont-Thabor, because this small hotel is all about location,...

How I came to write Reclaiming Paris

By Fabiola Santiago - November 17, 2008

One weekend morning more than a decade ago, when I lived in a Miami Beach apartment with sea and sun at my window, I woke up with the sunrise and went straight to my computer. I had just returned from an emotionally-charged assignment at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba, reporting for The Miami Herald on the thousands of Cuban rafters who had fled the island and were...

By Jon Scieszka - November 17, 2008

Have you ever had to kill a yak in the high Himalayas, and then eat its still-warm liver and eyeballs to survive? Well, I have . . . not . . . either. But I did see a guy on TV do that once. And boy, was it squishy. I think it just goes to show – you never know what people do with their free time. Myself, I like to enjoy a good nap, a swim, a bike ride, maybe another nap....

Million Dollar Mama

By Karma Wilson - November 17, 2008

I have a confession, Ultimate Fighting (commonly referred to as Mixed Martial Arts--or MMA) is my favorite sport…me a middle-aged picture book author and mother of three. But isn’t Ultimate Fighting dangerous and lacking the rules and regulations of more main-stream sports like boxing? I used to think so. Honestly, I was never a sports fan. I’ve always been hopelessly...

The Author As Jock

By Hal Urban - November 16, 2008

Many people think authors spend most of their time reading and writing. Not so. We actually do other things, all of them a lot more fun than writing. I’ve been asked to write about “something special that makes my heart sing.” Playing softball does that for me. In fact, I’ve already told my wife Cathy that after I die, I’d like my ashes to be spread at the...

By Margaret Peterson Haddix - November 15, 2008

We have a neighbor my kids call “the Sim.” Many mornings while my kids stood at the bus stop, waiting to go to school, this particular woman would walk out of her house, stare at her yard, walk a few more steps, stare at her yard again, then go back into her house—her actions seemingly as random and pointless as a character in the Sims computer games. My kids were in...

An Unexpected Passion

By John Lithgow - November 15, 2008

What am I passionate about? There are many answers to that question, most of them self-evident. I passionately love to act, of course. I love to entertain, to move people to laughter and tears, to tell stories to audiences old and very young. I love to put on costume and makeup and play a role. You don’t become an actor without a passion for it, and without that passion...

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