Does the thought of writing a soul-baring memoir cause you a flood of anxiety? Elissa Altman gets it, but as a teacher of memoir writing, she wants you to embrace the desire to write your story, if indeed that is your dream. “The... Read More

33 Place Brugmann / Alice Austen / Grove Press / Hardcover $28.00 (368pp) / 978-0-8021-6408-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Alice Austen’s engrossing historical novel 33 Place Brugmann, World War II disrupts a... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Roohi Choudhry, Author of Outside Women / What does kinship and solidarity look like for women on society’s margins? In her novel Outside Women, Roohi Choudhry explores the hardships misogyny and... Read More

“Most of the traditional cures that are to be found in contemporary Ireland can be regarded as faith cures. … Those who seek a cure generally have faith in it and believe it will work, and this conviction is seen as contributing to... Read More

The Gorgon’s Fury / Tales of Newel and Doren: A Fablehaven Adventure / Brandon Mull / Shadow Mountain Publishing / Hardcover $17.99 (192pp) / 978-1-63993-379-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Brandon Mull’s... Read More

Much of the novel is a powerful matrilineal history. Was there a particular moment that inspired you to explore women’s lives in a generational form? I decided to write this book after seeing a preview of the film Oppenheimer in the... Read More

Pieces You’ll Never Get Back / Samina Ali / Catapult / Hardcover $27.00 (272pp) / 978-1-64622-261-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Samina Ali’s searing memoir is about how a birth gone wrong took her, a promising... Read More