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Finding Company Elsewhere: Emily Haworth-Booth Discusses Mare
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (975+ words) I talk with Emily about writing for children versus adults, what having a strong literary community means to her, and what's next from her pen. TM: Yeah, I love that. Alright, so the story in itself is so much deeper…...
Ten Books About Mothers and Their Queer Sons, Recommended by Mario El'as
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (177+ words) For Queer sons and their mothers, that current carries extra voltage. There's more to navigate, more that can go unsaid, more that has to be invented from scratch because there's no existing script to follow. These ten stories are heartbreaking…...
Salom" author Leslie Baird loves the Goosebumps that scared her as a child
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (459+ words) Baird currently lives in Europe and received an MFA in fiction from Sewanee, the University of the South. We asked her to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped…...
Nerve Damage author Annakeara Stinson's bed is surrounded by books
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (227+ words) We asked Stinson to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. "What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...
Ten Debut Multiple POV Novels Recommended by Rachel Le'n
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (115+ words) Work to Do by Jules Wernersbach If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust" Waterline by Aram Mrjoian When the Harvest Comes"by Denne Michele Norris The El by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr." Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Coleman Hill by…...
Lake Effect author Hillary Behrman has too many book recs to count
1+ week, 2+ day ago (309+ words) We asked Berhman to answer our recurring My Reading Life Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. What was the first book you were obsessed with as a child?...
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay on Cross-Cultural Tensions in Chitra Demands to Go Home
1+ week, 3+ day ago (486+ words) Chitra, it seems, will stop at nothing to leave this place she refuses to call home." This interview has been edited and condensed for clarification. Amaris Castillo: Congratulations on Chitra Demands To Go Home. This book is about a 75-year-old…...
Kerri Schlottman, author of Daytime Moon, learned to read from Are You My Mother
1+ week, 3+ day ago (122+ words) Kerri Schlottman is the author of Daytime Moon and Tell Me One Thing. In Daytime Moon, readers meet Isa, an adrift woman who has a gift of premonition and a knack for tarot. We asked Schlottman to answer our recurring…...
See the cover for Let All Our Ghosts Depart by Meghana Mysore
1+ week, 4+ day ago (256+ words) Let All Our Ghosts Depart'will be published on September 1, 2026, by'West Virginia University Press. Mysore's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in'The Yale Review,'The Massachusetts Review,'The Audacity, and more. She is the winner of the Barry Hannah Prize in…...
Sarah Wang, author of New Skin, wants you to read Carceral Capitalism
1+ week, 4+ day ago (272+ words) Sarah Wang's writing has appeared in'The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the'London Review of Books,'The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, n+1,'and'BOMB,'among other publications. Now, her debut novel,'New Skin,'has hit the shelves at bookstores. We asked…...