“Once upon a time, a certain soon-to-be billionaire started the trend of collecting star ratings for products on his new website….Star ratings work great for printer cartridges and air fryers, but are unhelpful when it comes to art, especially books.”…
Author and writing instructor Matt Bell recently spoke at Porter Square Books at Grub Street’s beautiful, new narrative arts center in Boston—in person no less! In introducing his new craft book, Refuse to Be Done (Soho Press, 2022), Bell promised…
Juliette Fay is the award-winning, bestselling author of no less than six novels. Her latest, Catch Us When We Fall, is a poignant story filled with humor, compassion, and forgiveness. When the story begins, we meet Cass Macklin, determined to…
Critics are loving Rita Williams-Garcia’s latest novel, A Sitting in St. James. “Monumental,” says Booklist. “A marathon masterpiece,” raves Kirkus. “Necessary,” claims School Library Journal. Williams-Garcia is a three-time National Book Award finalist and Coretta Scott King Award winner for…
Leaving Coy’s Hill by Katherine Sherbrooke is based on the remarkable life of a little-known pioneering feminist and abolitionist Lucy Stone—the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree, to keep her maiden name, and to fight for women’s…
It’s a new year! Yay! And the vaccine is rolling out! Finally, you can exhale and concentrate on your novel. Not so fast, Hemingway. The end might be in sight, but as much as we we’d all like to move…