My guest author today is Deanna Raybourn, and her new novel City of Jasmine is set in London, Damascus, and other exotic European colonial outposts of the 1920s. CITY OF JASMINE, coming out this March, is the captivating tale of a famed aviatrix who embarks upon a journey to see the world and ends up finding intrigue, danger, and a love beyond all reason. Five years after losing her husband on the Lusitania, Evie embarks upon a flight around...

My novel is named ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE. So what is Astor Place and how did it come to be?

(6) He could not call in a stenographer and dictate a letter.

(7) he could not use a typewriter in his correspondence.

(35) He never paid admission to a baseball game, he had heard nothing about curved balls, and he did not shout till he was hoarse when a home run was made.

The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo My rating: 4 of 5 stars A novel about an Italian immigrant family living in Hell’s Kitchen New York during the 30s. Puzo based the main character of the mother on his own mother. I loved how Puzo said in the introduction that he also modeled the Godfather character after his mother. Was Marlon Brando aware of this? There seem to be surprisingly few novels about the Italian immigrant experience. This is...