END OF YEAR READING I thought that being felled by bronchitis a few days after Christmas was the worst timing in the world, but every time I opened my eyes from a nap, LARK AND TERMITE by Jayne Anne Phillips kept beckoning... Read more... | Comments (0)

Avril Graham's Gifts Picks for Women with Style Avril Graham is the Executive Fashion & Beauty Editor at Harpers Bazaar. She's also a woman of striking style, sophistication, and good humor. Add to this the fact that she has raised two lovely boys with very nice manners and she is officially super-woman to me. Avril Graham's Gifts Picks for Women with Style: Read more... | Comments (0)

Books for the Architecturally Astute David Simon is the Jette Professor of Art at Colby College, and an editor of Janson's History of Art: Western Tradition. More notably, he's Esther's brother... and a generous contributor to LM's holiday Books for Giving... for the Architecturally Astute Read more... | Comments (0)

Mary Ann Hoberman Greenwich resident Mary Ann Hoberman is a poet and author of many books for children, including A House Is a House for Me, winner of the National Book Award. Other titles include The Seven Silly Eaters and the You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series. In 2008, Hoberman was named Children's Poet Laureate of America by the Poetry Foundation. Her most recent project is The Tree That Time Built, an anthology of more than 100 poems celebrating the wonders of the natural world and encouraging environmental awareness. Read more... | Comments (0)