Wilda Williams
 Wilda (aka "Willy") Williams has a Masters in Library Science from the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!). Her first library job was at the American Museum of Natural History where she juggled interlibrary loan requests from around the globe and such arcane reference questions (pre-Google) as "How much does the Earth weigh sans people but with all the animals on it?". Because she was a poorly paid part-time library assistant, Wilda would often sneak into fancy parties held in the Hall of Oceanography (better known as the Blue Whale Room) to supplement her diet. Today as LJ's fiction editor, she specializes in popular fiction and edits the Mystery, Science Fiction, and Christian Fiction columns. She now can afford to eat lunch. User Stats
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Joseph Finder's Twitter Book TourAugust 17, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3)
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Happy Birthday, Julia Child!August 14, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)
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Frank McCourt & E. Lynn Harris, RIPJuly 30, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)  It's been a sad month for the literary world. On July 19, Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes, died in New York City at age 78 after a battle with melanoma. And last Thursday July 23, gay African-American novelist E. Lynn Harris, 54, was felled by heart disease (according to a coroner's report) in Beverly Hills while on a book tour for his most recent novel, Basketball Jones. (And blogger Sarah Weinman reports that William G. Tapply, author of the long-run...Read More
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Monster Mash: Jane Austen Meets Pirates of the CaribbeanJuly 15, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)
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What's Cooking This Fall: Hot Cookbooks at BEAJune 9, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)
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Last March I blogged about 
August 15 marks what would have been Julia Child's 97th birthday. And what better gift could there be than to have her first book, published almost 50 years ago and still in print, hit the national best-seller lists for the very first time in its history. Publisher Knopf reports that last weekend Child's 1961 culinary classic, 
Aside from a few Southern recipes handed down to me by my Alabama grandmother, I am admittingly a rudimentary cook, but I do love cookbooks and cooking shows (Top Chef is a guilty pleasure). I love the alluring promise they offer inexperienced or unskilled home chefs like me (yes, you too can create this exquisite complicated dish by following these simple steps!). So it was no hardship for me to stroll the aisles at last month's BookExpo in quest of the fall season's hot culinary titles.