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Sustainability in Publishing and in Life

Happy Earth Day! What do Earth Day and sustainability have to do with my writing? Let's talk about it. I…

James by Percival Everett In this retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett gives us enslaved Jim's point…

Day by Michael Cunningham This novel is wonderful for its in-depth character portrayals. Cunningham takes very authentic and simple domestic…

Four years ago this month, our nation shut down with the onset of the COVID pandemic. Thinking back on those…

Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur In Little Monsters, as in her memoir Wild Game, I loved Brodeur's writing, especially the…

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell If you loved Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, this one is a bit of a…

The Stark Beauty of Last Things by Celine Keating The Stark Beauty of Last Things is a poetic novel that…

Wellness by Nathan Hill I loved The Nix and when I heard Nathan Hill had a new novel coming out,…

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson This is a work of science fiction that reads like it…

Tom Lake By Ann Patchett I listened to this on audio, such a delight as Meryl Streep was the narrator.…