This morning as I was avoiding my desk, I felt compelled to tend to my garden. Watering, well that was necessary, and then inspecting and kvelling over all my beautiful plants. The first Siberian irises were unfurling, and my one…
Everyone wants new followers … until they follow you home. “Barber’s narrative, like social media itself, is as addictive as it is disturbing.” —Booklist “A cautionary tale about the perils of social media . . . keeps you guessing.” –Kirkus
Virtual Book Tour: Stephanie Storey, Raphael, Painter in Rome “The world of Raphael is one I wanted to linger in forever.” –Crystal King, author of The Chef’s Secret and Feast of Sorrow What is your book about? Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel…
Anna Solomon’s The Book of V. is a marvel. It’s both expansive and tightly woven, intensely intimate and shared. It braids the individual stories of three women—Lily in 2016 Brooklyn, Vee in Watergate-era Washington D.C., and Esther in ancient Persia—into a…
Meng Jin’s debut, Little Gods (Custom House, 2020), is an elegant, haunting novel that lingers like an eerie song. What starts on a grand stage—in a maternity ward near Tiananmen Square, where a massacre is about to unfold—becomes an intimate…
“Endlessly inquisitive and wider in scope than length, the novella proves a worthy addition to the canon of messy, strange, and keen women. Genre-bending, hard to categorize, and teeming with life.” —Kirkus Review What is your novella about? Still…