All the Wind in the World, by Samatha Mabry, Algonquin Young Readers, 273 pages I love YA novels and try to read a least one a month. I find them refreshing and without the cynicism that populates too many adult novels. Plus I enjoy the pacing, the characters, and the action. Mostly, I enjoy the… Read More Book review: All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry
The Girls, by Emma Cline, Random House, 346 pages I didn’t think I’d like this book, mostly due to the hype it received when it first came out two years ago. Yet, I surprised myself by staying up late in order to finish. I couldn’t stop reading, though not always for the right reason. I’ll… Read More Book review: The Girls, by Emma Cline
Swimming Lessons, by Clare Fuller, Tin House Books, 354 pages You know how sometimes you find a book that clicks with you so that you have no choice but to suspend your life in order to cozy down with it? Swimming Lessons is like that. It’s not a perfect book but it has some damn… Read More Book review: Swimming lessons by Clare Fuller
The best news: I recently signed a contract with Houghton Mifflin Hardcourt and a segment of my New York Times Magazine essay “Running Into Danger on an Alaskan Trail” will be featured in textbooks and reading materials for school-age students. This is so exciting because when I was in school, reading was the only thing that… Read More New work up at Brilliant Flash Fiction, and other good news
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? Do you believe in the paranormal? I wish I did. Life would be more fun. But in reality, a ghost could hit me upside the head with a copy of War and Peace and I’d still find a way to explain it. Thanks to my left-brain skepticism and years…
I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Simon Fitzmaurice, author of the the beautifully written memoir It‘s Not Yet Dark and filmmaker of The Sound of People and My Name is Emily, and my only regret is that I wasn’t able to publish it before he died in October of last year. (You can read the review… Read More Simon Fitzmaurice interview
What can I say about Simon Fitzmaurice’s remarkable memoir It’s Not Yet Dark except that it stunned me, saddened me, excited me, made me laugh and cry, took me to dark places and then shined lights in places I didn’t even know existed. It stayed with me, haunted me. I finished it months ago and yet… Read More Best book of 2017: “It’s Not Yet Dark” by Simon Fitzmaurice
