Reviewer Mya Alexice Talks Racism with Margaret Hagerman, Author of White Kids One of the flimsiest of racial stereotypes is the idea that poor, uneducated folks harbor the most intense racist sentiments, and that the higher up the... Read More

Reviewer Kristine Morris Interviews Cristien Storm, Author of Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change You, as an individual, exist in a small bubble, separate from the seven billion other... Read More

This week’s conversation is about one of our very favorite things: wine. Indeed, what goes better with a good book than a goblet of vino? So, what took you so long? you might ask. We’d answer that we were waiting for just the right... Read More

Trump and Putin. What’s going on? Why is our president so deferential to the man responsible for Russian invasions, murder, corruption, hacking, meddling, deception, and threats? Could it be that Putin is so brazen because he knows... Read More

Reviewer Rebecca Hussey Speaks with Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin, Editors of Who Will Speak for America? In these times of Republican-Democrat hostility, the mother-of-all frustrations is the unwillingness of political... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, Creators of the Graphic Novel Illegal All too often, important books sabotage their chances of earning a large readership by using dense, clinical prose and uninviting... Read More

There’s countless ways to assemble a collection of poetry, and there’s also the logical way: immerse yourself in one stimulating subject and use the poetic form as your method to ponder and explore. This week’s conversation is with... Read More

You’ve heard it before—the notion that writing short stories and poems is more difficult and time consuming (on a word-for-word basis) than writing novels—but you don’t believe it, do you? For the general population, especially,... Read More