Rick Kleffel:agony Column

"When I was a kid, I remember reading a book, and when it ended, it was sad to me..."

I Travel By Night

"...it came out of what-if..."

"...we'd have to change ourselves..."

"..he would shell somebody with one hand and then embrace them with the other..."

The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia

"We're hoping for a streamlined procedure..."

"We're looking at the shape of the text on the page..."-Amy Kossow

"Where's the beef, Mr. Lama?"

Insane City

"This full-disclosure thing would take some getting used to."

"Student debt is the new sub-prime."

Homeland

"...the very difficult choices women still have to make between their career and their kids..."

"Everything I know about writing I've learned from reading books."

Standing in Another Man's Grave

"...out of fear, that I would end up..."

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

"I always have a reader in mind, and that's Dick Todd."

"...they should be running a much larger deficit...."