Mary W. Kerr provides plenty of inspiration and tips for working with worn quilts and orphaned blocks in "The Art of Make-Do Quilting". Old quilts and unfinished blocks can often be found in antique and thrift stores, prompting quilters... Read More

Gioia Guerzoni’s "I Miss You" is a beautiful book of exercises designed to quell longing for absent people, places, and things. This work recognizes a variety of scenarios in which one might yearn. For those missing a person, the book... Read More

Clark Strand’s mystical treatise "Waking Up to the Dark" encourages reconsidering and preserving the entity of night amid a world of incessant brightness. The book reflects upon life prior to gas lighting and Thomas Edison’s... Read More

In Ellen Pall’s absorbing novel "Must Read Well", a trip down memory lane proves to be both emotional and treacherous. At Columbia, Elizabeth struggles to write her dissertation on famous feminist writers. She’s coming up short on... Read More

Coming-of-age and coming out collide in Felice Cohen’s poignant memoir "Half In". When Cohen was a twenty-three-year-old recent college graduate, she faced her future with uncertainty. She hoped to become a full-time professional... Read More

In Murray Lee’s engrossing novel Compass, a travel writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of previous polar expeditions sets out on his own trip to the Arctic. Guy narrates, mixing dark comedy into his tale with high dramatic stakes.... Read More

In "Loving the Dead and Gone", Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s multivoiced novel, the death of a young man provokes women in a rural North Carolina town to revisit their unmet longings. Clayton is puzzled by his wife Berta Mae’s contentions... Read More

Cheryl E. Klein’s memoir "Crybaby" is candid about living with infertility and cancer simultaneously, while also navigating everyday life. When Klein and her fianceé, CC, decided to start fertility treatments to have a child, their... Read More