Diane Mapes is the author of How to Date in a Post-Dating World and the editor of Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Recent faves include The Voyage of the Narwhal and The Devil and the White City.
Favorite Authors
A few favorites, in no particular order: Erik Larson, Mary Roach, Betty MacDonald, Marjorie Hillis, Laurie R. King, Helen Fielding, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, John Irving, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens.
What I'm Reading
Currently reading The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, a blending of science, history and some truly disturbing facts about the 1854 cholera epidemic in London.