Meet an ER Doctor and a Midwife
14 January 2020 Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who are Friends, This month I want to celebrate two remarkable women. An ER
January 14, 2020
WINGSPAN has landed
Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who are Friends, It’s official: the audiobook of my first play, WINGSPAN, landed today. You can download
March 26, 2019
A playlist — and a glimpse into how I write
Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who are Friends, I’m asked often about the process of writing: how I approach my day. Invariably,
March 17, 2019
The Fugitive Life of an Airline Employee
When I was a boy, I had an uncle who married a flight attendant—or what we called back then a (forgive me) stewardess.
April 4, 2018
The Flight Attendant Has Landed!
“Filled with turbulence and sudden plunges in altitude, ‘The Flight Attendant’ is a very rare thriller whose penultimate chapter made me think to
April 4, 2018
This Year, Take a Deep Breath and Focus on Others
When I was a boy, my parents’ New Year’s Eve parties were not precisely chaotic studies in dissolution and debauchery, but once when
December 31, 2017
The Ladies’ Room Just Inside Tomorrow Land: A Christmas Story
by Chris Bohjalian HE LEANED AGAINST THE cement wall, a father who was no longer young with a daughter who was, and listened
December 7, 2017
The novel, “Midwives,” 20 years later: What was the early reaction to the novel like? Has it changed over time?
It was twenty years ago that “Midwives” was published: 1997. Seinfeld was still on the air. The Spice Girls had two of the
May 12, 2017
The novel, “Midwives,” 20 years later: Is there anything I would update or change?
It was twenty years ago that “Midwives” was published: 1997. I had hair then. Our phones were considerably less smart. Our books were
May 10, 2017
Naming the Armenian Genocide for what it is
ADOLF HITLER KEPT a bust of Ataturk in his office. Heinrich Himmler considered moving to Turkey in the early 1920s. And Rudolf Hoess,
April 26, 2017
