Omnivorous Reader

Facing Fate When the law of averages strikes By Stephen E. Smith Your risk for developing pancreatic cancer is about 1 in 65. The odds of your dying in a car crash are 1 in 100. If you’re about [...]

A Masterpiece that Matters To Kill a Mockingbird continues to resonate By D.G. Martin Last October, on the final episode of PBS’s The Great American Read, Harper Lee’s 1960 Southern classic To [...]

Beyond Jaws The tragedy of the Indianapolis revisited By Stephen E. Smith Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bookstore, there’s a new best-seller about the worst shark attack [...]

Linking Different Worlds Orr and Sparks connect North Carolina and Africa By D.G. Martin Two important new novels are set in North Carolina and in Africa. It is an amazing coincidence because the [...]