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My father Emile Snyder was a professor of African Literature and Languages, specializing in contemporary African Literature written in French and English. He taught at a number of universities, including the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the University of Dar- es Salaam, Tanzania, and Indiana University. In 1964 when he was just embarking on a […]

The new anthology, Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villianous Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling is now out for the reading pleasure of your favorite middle grade scary-book reader. (My kids devoured all of Alvin Schwartz’s wonderfully ghoulish and creepy tales at that age.) The anthology offers versions of well-known fairy tales, but from a unique

I am one of those ardent Luis Urrea fans who has been waiting impatiently for the sequel to his gorgeous novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter — and I was initially dismayed when I read on his blog that another novel had sprung to life in his head, compelling him to put the sequel aside. So I picked up

On Sundays my daughter spends the day making Mexican mole — the deep brown chocolate and chile sauce that fills the house with its rich aroma and the stinging scent of roasting chiles that makes our eyes weep. The ingredients fill every inch of counter space around the stove — dried ancho and guajillo chiles