In 1993, Jeff Arch’s screenplay Sleepless in Seattle became a hit movie, won him an Academy Award nomination, and launched a thirty-year career writing for films. For most of those years, though, Jeff was haunted by a story that insisted…
Mary-Kim Arnold and Matthew Derby are married writers who live in Pawtucket, RI. Mary-Kim is the author of The Fish & The Dove, a poetry collection, and Litany for the Long Moment, a book-length experimental memoir about the failed search…
Sheba Karim’s new novel, The Marvelous Mirza Girls, follows the gap-year adventures of Noreen, who moves to New Delhi from New Jersey with her hip single mom, Ruby, to recover from the recent death of her beloved aunt. During their…
I don’t think I’m the only writer who finds life interfering with art from time to time, or—often. Whether I simply allow it or embrace distraction, I’m not sure. But I jilt my manuscript repeatedly, sometimes for a weekend, sometimes…
Family Law by Gin Phillips is set in Alabama in the early 1980s and it’s a white man’s world. Enter Lucia Gilbert, a whip-smart attorney who, by her own admission, “runs at the fight.” Lucia attracts the attention of Rachel…
In the opening pages of Maggie Shipstead’s incredible new novel Great Circle, we’re introduced to two women who will carry the story—Marian Graves, a daredevil pilot on a quest to become the first to circumnavigate the globe pole-to-pole, and actress…