In her debut novel, “Walking on Fire,” author Kathryn Crawley tapped into her early career in speech pathology when she worked at a center in Thessaloniki for Greek children with cerebral palsy from 1974 to 1976.The novel features Kate, from…
When a runway model in 1940s Hollywood makes a split-second decision meant to protect those she loves, she triggers a cascade of secrets and lies that threaten to upend her life decades later. Following up on her Massachusetts Book Award winning…
Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 2 Current Project: Hobberdidance (tentative title), a historical novel in which three women accused of demonic possession find…
Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 9 Current Project: The Last Slave Brother, the first of two historical novels set 30 years after Christ’s…
The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights is a mesmerizing historical novel about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets they hold. Hailed as a haunting meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters Kitty Zeldis, the author, throws…
Next Chapters is a biweekly feature spotlighting graduates of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, which has been running since 2010. Novel Incubator Year: 10 Current Project: historical fiction What are you reading now? I’ve just completed Book Riot’s 2022 “Read Harder…