Edward M. Eveld

When the water stops, things get ugly fast. And not just the dust-clogged cities and sand-driven landscapes in Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel, “The Water Knife,” where the American Southwest of the near future has collapsed. Texans are fleeing their…

The glittery elite came for the extravagant idea of it, a fashion show fundraiser to help restore the Palace of Versailles, right there in the grand theater of Louis XIV’s faded masterpiece outside Paris. Five French masters and five successful…

Author and lecturer Malcolm Gladwell told one of his favorite underdog stories Wednesday night. It’s about an overmatched girls basketball team that played its own unorthodox game and won. So unskilled were they, Gladwell said, that the coach decided…

Author Sara Gruen had a notion to tie a rope around her waist and plunge deep into the chill, dark waters of Scotland’s Loch Ness. She did not. It’s a bit dangerous. But even without such literal immersion, the “Water for Elephants” author…

Rachel Watson takes the train into the city every day, pretending to go to a job she lost. She obsesses about her cheating husband — ex-husband — and his blissful new life. He’s a big reason she’s an over-imbibing commuter, wine from small bottles,…

When you want to get schooled about Valentine’s Day, talk to a romance author, right? Fortunately, there’s a great cast of homegrown authors who write books in a variety of romance novel genres. We wanted to hear their take — their experiences, their…

Amy Webb wasn’t looking for any more bad dates. Or even pleasant dates that clearly weren’t going anywhere. She had cast the net wide. She had perfected her bar pose. She had agreed to all manner of set-up dates. She went online: eHarmony, Match and…

Steve Almond gave up football. Not for Lent. Not for Thanksgiving weekend. For good. Yep. Turned off the flat-screen. Switched the radio station from sports talk. Walked away from the tailgate. It wasn’t easy. It was excruciating. “I’m one of you,”…

Julie Schumacher has written an entire novel that consists of nothing but letters of recommendation — LORs — from a wry, sorehead English professor. And she had so much fun doing it. Both Schumacher and her book’s antihero, Jason T. Fitger, teach…