Rick Kleffel:agony Column

"I found that describing the way a scene was lit actually helped a lot."

The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court

"..they were Republicans, who left the Supreme Court, totally alienated from the modern Republican party..."

"His words were ice against her ear."

"I imagine having a conversation with one of them."

God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage

"I'm a little bit of a namedropper." - Roz Kaveney

"....to show the thing from the viewpoint of the monster...."

"Europe's southern border is the Sahara Desert."

"...how our beliefs color and change how we think about things..."

The Revenge of Geography

"I'll begin with the epigraph, which is from Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species."

"...for me there was a really funny, strange opportunity to write a biography about someone who listened to the same music as me."

"Have you actually lived for thousands of years and retained that much capacity for trust?"

"...maybe we could carry on what Abbey has said before us..."

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

The Environmeddlers

"You don't know what your parents have going on, and all of a sudden it affects your life."

Caravan of Thieves

"...his mental life was full of so much drama."