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  • 1 week ago | lvpnews.com | Ann Hood |Jayne Phillips |Tamsyn Muir |Truman Capote

    ALLENTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY 1210 Hamilton St., Allentown, 610-820-2400, www.allentownpl.org Memoir Writing Group: 1 p.m. June 24 Adult Book Club: “The Stolen Child,” By Ann Hood, 6 p.m. June 24, in person and Zoom Daytime Book Group: “Night Watch,” By Jayne Anne Phillips, 2 p.m. July 1 BARNES & NOBLE Southmont Center, 4445 Southmont Way, Easton. 610-515-0376, www.barnesandnoble.com Author Event: “Secrets of the Wind,” Robert L.

  • Mar 29, 2025 | ruhlman.substack.com | Michael Ruhlman |Ann Hood

    We’ve just arrived Islay, an island 12 miles north of Northern Ireland in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, lured by our favorite spirit, the smoky, peaty whiskies of this rugged land, population just over 3,200. There’s something enormously satisfying about going to the source of the food and drink you love. To a place like Islay. The uniquity of this place (new word for me, thank you Anu Garg) is not evident until you are actually standing in the mud, inhaling the peat smoke.

  • Mar 1, 2025 | ruhlman.substack.com | Michael Ruhlman |Ruth Reichl |Ann Hood

    We’ve just returned from the beautiful colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, 170 miles NW of Mexico City. It was my first time and Ann’s first time at the writers’ conference. John Irving opened the conference, reading from his forthcoming novel, Queen Esther. And, happily, among the keynotes was , who gave a fabulous presentation combining her memoirs and her fiction. If there is a better ambassador for the importance of writing about food, I don’t know him or her.

  • Feb 15, 2025 | ruhlman.substack.com | Michael Ruhlman |Ann Hood

    My wife , above, is hosting a Zoom gathering/launch party to discuss a new book of essays on a perennially rewatched mother-daughter, small-town, big-emotions TV show: LIfe’s Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers On Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls. This Monday, November 11, at 7 pm eastern. It’s free! To register, see link below.

  • Nov 12, 2024 | people.com | Ann Hood

    'Life's Short, Talk Fast' edited by Ann Hood and a portrait of the editor. Photo: Credit: Beowulf Sheehan; W. W. Norton & Company Inc In the summer of 1973, all I wanted to do was kiss boys. Cute boys, to be exact. Best of all: cute boys with sexy cars — Mustang convertibles, flirty MGs, souped-up Camaros. I was 16 years old and worked as a department store model at the Warwick Mall and that summer boys were everywhere.