5 from 35: Author Q & A with Sarah Cannon
Sarah Cannon, 43, publishes her first book, THE SHAME OF LOSING, a memoir, today with Red Hen Press. How long did it take you to write your first (published) book, start to finish? … Continue reading
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Book Review: Lands of Lost Borders
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris Dey Street Books, $24.99 Purchase from Warning: serious fan-girling ahead. The coolest thing about Kate Harris isn’t that she was… Continue reading
5 from 35: Author Q & A with Sarahlyn Bruck
Sarahlyn Bruck, 46, is the author Designer You, her first book, which was published last month. How long did it take you to write your first (published) book, start to finish? Two years. I… Continue reading
Book Review: Designer You by Sarahlyn Bruck
DESIGNER YOU by Sarahlyn Bruck Crooked Cat Books, $12.99 I know I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I couldn’t help myself with this one—it was delightful to open… Continue reading
5 from 35: Author Q & A with Katya Apekina
Katya Apekina, 35, debuts with her novel The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, which releases today from Two Dollar Radio. How long did it take you to write your first (published) book, start… Continue reading
5 from 35: Author Q & A with Rebecca Entel
Rebecca Entel, 40, published Fingerprints of Previous Owners in 2017. (Unnamed Press). If you live in New York, you can see her tonight at KGB Bar’s “Hidden Histories” reading with Dawn Raffel and Donna Baier Stein… Continue reading
5 from 35: Author Q & A with Melanie Hobson
Melanie Hobson, 50, publishes her debut, Summer Cannibals, today with Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. You can read our review of Summer Cannibals here. How long did it take you to write your first… Continue reading
Book Review: Summer Cannibals by Melanie Hobson
Summer Cannibals By Melanie Hobson Black Cat, $16 Click on the icon to purchase this book from the author’s preferred bookseller, Midtown Reader. Appetites. Repression. Frustration. Creativity. Worth. These are the… Continue reading
5 from 35: Authors Q & A with Wyomia Tyus & Elizabeth Terzakis
Wyomia Tyus is a four-time Olympic medalist and the holder of multiple world records. She was a supporter of the Olympic Project for Human Rights during the 1968 Olympics, doing her part to promote… Continue reading
5 from 35: Author Q&A with Jennifer Klepper
Jennifer Klepper, 47, is the author of Unbroken Threads, publishing today from Red Adept Publishing. How long did it take you to write your first (published) book, start to finish? Some of this book was… Continue reading
5 from 35: Author Q&A with Caitlin Hamilton Summie
Caitlin Hamilton Summie published her first book, To Lay To Rest Our Ghosts (Fomite Press, 2017), at age 48. Her book recently won Silver in the Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Award… Continue reading
REVIEW: The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker
The Shortest Way Home By Miriam Parker Dutton Books, $26 This review’s author-designated bookseller is Astoria Bookshop! Click button to purchase! It’s love at first sight for Hannah when she enters the tasting… Continue reading
5 for 35: Author Q & A with Miriam Parker
Miriam Parker, 39, author of The Shortest Way Home, answers 5 from 35 this week. (Actually, she graciously answered more questions for us and they were so good we had to include them… Continue reading
The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber
The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children’s books of all time,The Velveteen Rabbit, and… Continue reading
Spineless by Juli Berwald
Jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for well over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet. They make a venom so toxic it can kill… Continue reading
The Skin Above My Knee by Marcia Butler
Music was everything for Marcia Butler. Growing up in an emotionally desolate home with an abusive father and a distant mother, she devoted herself to the discipline and rigor of the oboe, and… Continue reading
Sip by Brian Allen Carr
It started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, artificial lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure… Continue reading
Florence in Ecstasy by Jessie Chaffee
A young American woman arrives in Florence from Boston, knowing no one and speaking little Italian. But Hannah is isolated in a more profound way, estranged from her own identity after a bout… Continue reading
All Over the Place: Adventure in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geradline DeRuiter
Hilarious, irreverent, and heartfelt, All Over the Place chronicles the years Geraldine spent traveling the world after getting laid off from a job she loved. Those years taught her a great number of things, though… Continue reading
The Storm Before The Storm by Mike Duncan
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world filled with petty… Continue reading
Lifesaving for Beginners by Anne Edelstein
When Anne Edelstein was forty-two, her mother, a capable swimmer in good health, drowned while snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. Caring for two small children of her own, Anne suddenly found herself… Continue reading
Fingerprints of Previous Owners by Rebecca Entel
At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as a maid by day; by night she trespasses on the resort’s overgrown inland property, secretly excavating the plantation ruins the… Continue reading
A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea by Melissa Fleming
Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight―just debris from the ship’s wreckage and floating corpses all around―nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and… Continue reading
Restless in L.A. by Robin Finn
It was an innocent online flirtation. Until it wasn’t… Alexandra Hoffman thinks she has it all together. She lives with her work-obsessed husband Jason and their three challenging children in upscale Los Angeles.… Continue reading
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As… Continue reading
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an… Continue reading
Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters to a Young Muslim, a bold and intimate exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in the twenty-first century. In a series of… Continue reading
The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper
Elise Hooper’s debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott—Louisa’s youngest sister and an artist in her own right. Stylish, outgoing, creative, May Alcott grows up longing to experience the wide… Continue reading
Impossible Views of the World by Lucy Ives
Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan’s renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is stalking her, a workplace romance… Continue reading
August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
Tough, smart, and struggling to stay alive, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother, August grew up in the city’s Mexicantown and joined… Continue reading
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old… Continue reading
All That’s Left To Tell by Daniel Lowe
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine visits his cell. At first, her questions are mercenary:… Continue reading
The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews
June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin’s home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the… Continue reading
A Good Byline by Jill Orr
Meet Riley Ellison, a smart, quirky, young library assistant who’s become known in her hometown of Tuttle Corner, Virginia, as Riley Bless-Her-Heart. Ever since her beloved granddaddy died and her longtime boyfriend broke… Continue reading
Next Year For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love. After nine years together, Kathryn… Continue reading