In Leah Stewart’s new novel, an infidelity jars a former poet into reconsidering her marriage and its costs
So hoary is the tradition of novels about writers that it’s impossible to attend a graduate writing program without being warned against the shopworn trope of writing about being a…
What if all you ever wanted was a kid who loves books, and your daughter turns out to have bad taste in literature?
…on she may reject reading altogether. But for now, all evidence suggests that I’ve got the book lover I always wanted. Copyright (c) 2010 by Susannah Felts. All rights reserved….
Jennifer Holm’s new middle-grade reader captures the Key West of an earlier age
From the looks of the dust jacket, you might assume Turtle in Paradise tells a sand ‘n’ surf tale of a lucky young girl luxuriating in a beachside resort, perhaps…
What if the worst natural disaster of your lifetime strikes, and you don’t even get a good story out of it?
I dress my toddler in her swimsuit, thinking, Why not. She likes it. It’s fitting. But we keep one eye on the basement and the other on the local news….
The protagonist of Drew Perry’s new novel joins a long line of Southern losers
Southern writers don’t let their men off easily. Think of Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, and George Singleton, to name just a few: their protagonists are a thick crowd of failed…
For kids who struggle to read, therapy dogs can be the best teachers
On an early spring day, a visitor comes to Nashville’s Julia Green Elementary School to see a few lucky students. Her name is Emma, and she sits on the floor…
