Kelly Sundberg’s husband, Caleb, was a funny, warm, supportive man and a wonderful father to their little boy, Reed. He was also vengeful and violent. But Sundberg did not know this when she… Continue reading →

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power. Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America’s… Continue reading →

In 1968, Wyomia Tyus became the first person ever to win gold medals in the 100-meter sprint in two consecutive Olympic Games, a feat that would not be repeated for twenty years or… Continue reading →

Steph Auteri, 38, published her first book, A Dirty Word: How A Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality, with Cleis Press this October. Read more here.  How long did it take you to write your first… Continue reading →

Elly Lonon, 42, published Amongst the Liberal Elite: The Road Trip Exploring Societal Inequities Solidified by Trump (RESIST) – a graphic novel, this fall with powerHouse Books.  Read more here. How long did… Continue reading →

  Natalie Singer, 40, published first book California Calling: A Self-Interrogation with Hawthorne Books this year. Read more here. How long did it take you to write your first (published) book, start to… Continue reading →

Emily Strelow, 40, published her debut THE WILD BIRDS from Rare Bird this year. Read more about THE WILD BIRDS here.  BUY THE BOOK How long did it take you to write your first… Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

 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 →

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 →