These days I write a monthly column for a neighborhood magazine in Winston-Salem. As a huge supporter of the literary non-profit Bookmarks (I am currently president of the board of directors) I cover all sorts of Bookmarks events from author visits to summer reading programs to our annual book festival. I’m going to start re-posting some of those articles here, for readers who may not live in my neighborhood but would still like to know about some of the cool things that can happen when books are involved. This is from the April column: