A quote showed up on my Facebook feed recently that got me thinking about my reading habits. Which have become pretty much nonexistent over the last few years. It’s ironic that the drop off in my reading coincided with the editing and...

This article is being written in response to 20 Things Fiction Readers Want in a Story.  I only thought it the politically correct thing to do to rule out any form of discrimination.  I know, -I have some hutzpah to even come up with the...

While on sabbatical in Darby, Montana to complete The Business of Being: Soul Purpose In and Out of the Workplace, I wrote like a fiend during the day, and read until I couldn’t hold my eyes open any longer at night.    On a...

A week and a half ago, I was reading Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" to my boys, and came across this passage about the barbaric "order" of medieval life, which boiled down to who could kill...

I've been reading a lot of my friends' books lately, and it's been a delight. I finally read Orphan Train. (Thank you Christina Baker Kline, for writing something so beautiful--not to mention that the phenomenal success of that book...

Hi all! I know that the super-organized among us may have already taken care of the holiday shopping, but I am such a book-buying addict that I find I will still buy books for people even when I've already bought somebody (for instance my mom) a...

I was going to write about a different topic this week, but a comment made on my blog last week, “Oh, for the love of reading,” really got me thinking. The main gist of that post has to do with what types of books you like reading for...

This week I thought I’d talk a little about the love of reading the written word. I’m often amazed at how little some people read, especially if they are involved in the publishing industry in any way. In this business, reading is the...

Sarah Glazer asks why this feminist novelist doesn’t translate well to America  How does it feel when you can’t see the greatness in a writer reputed to be one of England’s major feminist novelists?  A little lousy, frankly. That was my feeling...

Have any of you read P.G. Wodehouse?  I am devouring the Jeeves books right now (on "The Inimitable Jeeves" and just finished "Right Ho, Jeeves"), and one of the most delicious things about these books, which are like crack...

It wasn't easy getting there.  A blizzard hit Boston the day I flew in, and it took me five hours to get from New York to New England when it should only have taken me one.  I landed in a whiteout on a runway covered in snow, and thought, "Oh AWP,...

You don’t have to be a genius to love reading, but that doesn’t mean a genius won’t read your work. Bill Gates dropped out of college and Albert Einstein dropped out of high school. Both of these men went on to affect life on this...

Sarah Glazer worries that writers are getting shafted by Amazon Like a lot of you, I got that “Dear Kindle customer” email from Amazon last week. It told me I was entitled to refunds on some past e-book purchases due to the...

This past weekend, I took my two little boys home for a trip to see my family in Texas.  About a month before, I did something that one writer friend, at least, thought was crazy: I sent the first third of my novel to my parents.  Why...

Sarah Glazer confesses her weakness for historical fiction even as some historians bash it. I learned most of my history from historical fiction—at least at first. Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy hooked me on Alexandrian Greece.  Shakespeare’s...