Rick Kleffel:agony Column

Gutenberg's Apprentice

"On his death in 1940, there were remaindered copies..."

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

"...peace is possible..."

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

"... like your hands are, and their arms are, engaged in this poetic dance..."

Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

"...fiction allows you to step into someone's head..."

Broken Monsters

"... it was him saying what he felt, but for me it was a revelation about what I felt..."

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

"..it's not my worldview, but it was the worldview at that time..."

China Dolls

"...one of the first books I ever wrote was a Bobbsey Twins novel..."

Tigerman

"...the first book was going to contain about a hundred years of implicit future history..."

"...the first book was going to contain about a hundred years of implicit future history..."

"...the first book was going to contain about a hundred years of implicit future history..."

"...we do a lot of policy-based evidence making here..."

"...I had no idea of how it worked because we had never talked about it."