When I began Attic Salt in August 2009, I was living in DC, working for a newspaper, and blogging about my adventures at a personal blog, M...

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I spotted these at Anthropologie . How beautiful!

I love a good scary story now and then, and today's the perfect time to pick one up. Here are my four favorite spooky/scary/Halloween st...

Originally printed in the Washington Post Express If there's one thing Facebook stalking old middle-school classmates can teach us, it...

In my journalism, I never have the luxury of including every quote or topic that comes up in the course of an interview. I recently intervie...

Whew, it's high time I finish up Persuasion , isn't it? I've been really busy these past couple weeks, taking the second road tr...

Since I've gone ahead and just finished Persuasion like I did with Northanger Abbey (this is what happens with shorter books!) I'm...

In Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , food emits the feelings of the person who made it to 9-year-old Rose Edelstein....

You've probably noticed that Attic Salt has become pretty much just a Jane Austen/ Coralie Bickford-Smith appreciation blog. Well, the...