Monday Apr 30 | El Paso Times
'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens
"The Solitary House" , by Lynn Shepherd: The star of Lynn Shepherd's intriguing mystery novel is mid-century Victorian London, depicted in all its filthy glory and without a hint of the jolly charm that found its way into the tales of Charles Dickens.
Fight! Fight! Rich People Duke It Out Over Art and Real Estate! Someone Lend them a Knife
Art fight! Art fight! Everybody ditch class and run out in the halls to watch! The rich kids are fighting about their art! On this day when the national economy is still on life support, Texas schools are sinking into Dickensian poverty and the city can't afford sewers, our city's one and only, sole and lonely daily newspaper, The Dallas Morning ... (more)