“My personal epiphany as a writer came from this advice: think of your book as a movie in which you’re presenting scenes to the reader. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a vivid detail is worth a few hundred.’’ —Alex... Read More

Reviewer Pallas Gates McCorquodale and Her Elementary School Students Interview Carol Lynn Pearson, Author of I’ll Walk with You / We can measure the worth of a writer using metrics like number of weeks on bestseller lists and million... Read More

Have Fun in Burma / Rosalie Metro / Northern Illinois University Press / Softcover $19.95 (245pp) / 978-0-87580-777-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Have Fun in Burma follows Adela, just out of high school, through her summer... Read More

The Bear / Andrew Krivak / Bellevue Literary Press / Softcover $16.99 (224pp) / 978-1-942658-70-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / The Bear is a dreamy dispatch from the end of the world. In Andrew Krivak’s palimpsest novel,... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Wendy Sanford, Author of These Walls Between Us / Wendy Sanford, who is white, and Mary Norman, who is Black, have created a friendship that spans sixty-five years. The story of their... Read More

During the year that my husband and I spent planning a lengthy French sojourn, I envisioned writing a book about the forces that converge to force baby boomers out of traditional work arrangements sooner than expected—something that... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Sarah Kennedy, Author of Queen of Blood—Book Four in The Cross and the Crown Series / Epics of historical fiction most often follow the feats and follies of major figures—kings, conquerors,... Read More

Consider the human heart—evolutionary wonder, critical part of our anatomy, susceptible to all manner of disorder making heart disease the leading cause of death to Americans, with many hundreds of billions of dollars going to... Read More