One Thing Stolen beautifully illustrated and excerpted in Main Line Today

Hugely grateful to Hobart Rowland at Main Line Today for including One Thing Stolen in the Big Summer Read edition of his magazine. And happy to be spending time there with my friends Kelly Simmons and Daniel Torday.

A link to the full story is here.

Gratitude is here but also where nobody but me can see it.

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In today's Philadelphia Inquirer, an excerpt from GOING OVER

With gratitude, as always. I do know how lucky I am.

Read the excerpt online here.

Additionally, my wonderful friend Karen Bernstein—she of gifts from Diane Keaton, she of brilliant Going Over pots—reports that she found Going Over on page 71 of the new issue of Main Line Today Magazine listed as one of the "ten great beach reads by local authors." Huge thanks to Karen, and to the magazine.

I have always loved being local.

Speaking of local: Come celebrate the first year in the life of Main Point Books next Saturday, when a fleet of super cool local authors will be signing books. I'll be there at three o'clock with both Going Over and Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir. More on the day can be found here.

Finally, more on Going Over can be found here, through the hugely generous BCCB review.

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A kind citation by Main Line Today

It is possible that magazines don't know how happy they make authors when they pay attention to the books that authors write.

For the record, this citation by Main Line Today and Emily Riley made me exquisitely happy, and I have a certain Kim (she's gorgeous, perhaps you'll someday meet her) to thank for letting me know.

From Main Line Today, then, which chose You Are My Only as a staff favorite:

With a story seemingly ripped from the headlines, the award-winning author and Main Line Today contributor spares readers the sensationalism and, instead, seamlessly weaves the dual narratives into a plot that races toward a stunning finish.  

Read the whole thing here.

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George Childs: The Superlative Philanthropist

My essay about one of Philadelphia's greatest citizens, George Childs, is running in the December issue of Main Line Today, which is out on newstands today. Childs wasn't just the judicious editor of the Public Ledger (a guy who cared about getting the news right, as opposed to, say, salacious and juicy). He isn't just the guy who, along with his friend Anthony Drexel, created one of the first suburban outposts ever (I lived my whole adult life wishing I could live in one of the houses that erupted from his gracious suburban planning). He was also perhaps the greatest philanthropist Philadelphia ever knew—a man who devoted hours of every day to listening to the dreams of young people and then making them happen.

There's so much about the way that this man lived that deserves to be remembered. So many lessons for today. And so I say thank you today to Hobart Rowland for making room for my small tribute.

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