Category: On Writing
Never in One Place for Long
Genevieve Jenner, the author of a new collection of short stories centred around food, Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives, shares her literary inspirations Recently I made stuffed mushrooms for dinner. I described the dish as having a 1970s continental vibe to it. At dinner I began to make up a story for my family about […]
Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States
In 2011 and 2012, I bicycled around the perimeter of the United States, 12,000 miles. I was 53 when I began and 54 when I finished the circle fourteen months later. I was not an athlete. I was a laid off college instructor, a woman suffering from PTSD, a political activist and social movement scholar. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Cleyvis Natera
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification “Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an […]
Q&A with Rosie Acosta, Author of YOU ARE RADICALLY LOVED: A Healing Journey to Self Love
Q&A with Rosie Acosta, Author of YOU ARE RADICALLY LOVED: A Healing Journey to Self Love (Tarcher/Perigee; February 2022) From the award-winning host of the Radically Loved podcast, comes an invitation to discover the healing power of who you are, body, mind, and spirit. Rosie Acosta is a world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher, host of the top-rated iTunes podcast, Radically Loved, and author of YOU […]
An Interview with Kathleen Courtenay Stone
THEY CALLED US GIRLS: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men by Kathleen C. Stone is a wonderful new collective biography of seven women who aspired to professional jobs in the mid-twentieth century. It was an era when women were expected to find fulfillment at home, in the mold of television’s June Cleaver. But these women […]
For the Birds
For the Birds, by Claudia Hinz I became a birder out of desperation in the early days of the pandemic, on an afternoon when the hours felt both flabby and flimsy, so that I couldn’t tell you if it was one o’clock or almost dinner time. Tuesday or Thursday. Until that day, I’d always been […]
She Will Soar: Why Women Write about Escape and Freedom
My second anthology of poems by women, She Will Soar, aimed again at an 11+ audience as She Is Fierce was, takes as its themes wanderlust, freedom and escape – themes which suddenly took on a strange relevance as I edited the book during lockdown. I have always believed in books and poetry as magic […]
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace Each of our lives tells a story with its own recurrent lessons. My story combines East and West in a personal quest for balance that led to my book, The Tao of Inner Peace. […]
LIKE ME, by Hayley Phelan, Excerpt
LIKE ME by Hayley Phelan A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, illusion, and female identity in the digital age. Though beautiful, cunning, and privileged, nineteen-year-old Mickey finds herself with a stalled modeling career, an escalating drinking problem, few friends, and next to nothing in the bank. To numb her growing despair, she spends her days […]
Here’s What My Savvy 24-year-old Protagonist Taught Me … By Lisa Barr
Here’s What My Savvy 24-year-old Protagonist Taught Me … By Lisa Barr Every author knows that putting out a new book into the world comes with a 24/7 “I’m-SO-Sick-of-Me” social media presence. I made a pact with myself this time around that I needed to do something meaningful to me personally to promote my third […]
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