Book Review
Reader, I
“Reader, I married him”—–yes, Corey Van Landingham did. Jane Eyre acknowledgements aside, looks to the heavens to help comprehend just what that makes her. As her sidekick, we’re in for a dazzling ride of allusion, wit,...
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G̱agaan X̱'usyee
The pieces of what’s left of a people colonized need caretaking, lionizing, and encouragement to come out into the sun. The job is left to poets who are also warriors. Descending from Alaska’s Lingít, Haida, and Yup’ik Native...
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Take a struggling reader to a striving reader with The Big Aquarium Adventure!
by Matt Sutherland
Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Nancy Roop, Author of The Big Aquarium Adventure / It’s easy to forget that reading is a skill—now that you can navigate newspapers, novels, street signs, and smart screens with mindless...
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A masterful true-crime story of ambition, intrigue, and the early Hormel company
by Matt Sutherland
Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Gretchen Cherington, Author of The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy / Answering the “where we came from” question is universally appealing, which is why countless people lean on...
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How do you choose between your country, your people, and yourself?
by Matt Sutherland
Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Gin Hammond, Author of Returning the Bones / Great books leave their mark in unforgettable scenes and ideas. And a few offer more than seems possible. In Gin Hammond’s Returning the Bones, we...
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BEST Of 2023: Spirituality Edition
by Matt Sutherland
In 2023, we interviewed the authors of several spiritual books that transcend conventional religion and instead stress feminine, Indigenous, nature-based, and self-exploration in their core beliefs. This week we culled the most powerful...
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Best Of 2023, Round One - Foreword This Week
by Matt Sutherland
As we do at the very beginning of every year, this week we’re offering you an assemblage of our favorite questions and responses from the previous year’s fifty-plus interviews between reviewers and authors. Please give this an...
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Phone Ringing in a Dark House
The poet shares his work in any number of ways once it’s conceived, primarily from page to reader. But Rolly Kent shows us that his poems have always existed in our hearts and minds and that it is only necessary to discover them,...