Articles by Bernadette Murphy

AFTER 35 years in the trenches as an English professor at Citrus College in Glendora, author Dale Salwak has learned a few things. Read more

Haven’t we had enough Jane Austen already? Read more

WHAT is it about the works of Garrison Keillor that keeps readers and listeners coming back for more? Read more

“THE River Wife,” a novel by Jonis Agee (“Sweet Eyes” and “Strange Angels”), is set on the shores of the Mississippi and ranges from the early 1800s into the years of the Great Depression. Read more

MY oldest child will graduate from high school in a few weeks, and before I know it he’ll be packing his bags and heading off to college, scarcely pausing to turn around and wave to those he’s leaving behind. Read more

READING Ellen Currey-Wilson’s “The Big Turnoff,” a memoir about raising a television-free child in a media-soaked world, is a little like attending a 12-step meeting, only the drug of choice is television. Read more

WITH all the tragedies going on in the world – Iraq, Darfur, Afghanistan – who has time or the energy to think about hair? Read more

LIAM CALLANAN’S acclaimed first novel, “The Cloud Atlas,” was a masterful story about bombs carried by balloons over the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Alaska during World War II. It offered a wide-ranging narrative, full of mystery and intrigue, exotic locales and characters, and was set at a fascinating moment in history. Read more

NO matter your job title or vocation, we all work at communicating crucial concepts. Read more