In Linda Lee Peterson’s latest novel, a San Francisco editor returns to her Southern roots to unravel ancient family intrigue and forbidden love
…Southerner, whose convictions lay with the Union cause and who traveled by horse to treat the wounded on both sides of the battlefield. Peterson uses journal entries and letters from…
Kelly Corrigan’s third memoir, Glitter and Glue, is a poignant tale of learning to love her mother
…nanny for John Tanner, a widower with two young children: seven-year-old Milly and five-year-old Martin. As Corrigan steps into the role of caring for them, she can’t help but think…
In We Are Pirates, Daniel Handler offers the same mixture of weirdness, social satire, and bad behavior that delighted children in A Series of Unfortunate Events
…gleefully capsizes literary conventions. The girl in question is Gwen, the incredibly bored daughter of Phil Needle, a hot-shot radio producer who is married to Marina, a painter and Gwen’s…
Samantha Shannon talks with Chapter 16 about The Mime Order, the new novel in her mind-bendingly good dystopian series
…to the edge: of sanity, of morality, of survival. Decisions can literally mean life or death, and the consequences of each individual’s actions can have enormous, sometimes nationwide or global,…
Karen Abbott talks with Chapter 16 about her new work of nonfiction, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Karen Abbott (the “pioneer of sizzle history,” according to USA Today) has made a career of writing about unconventional and revolutionary women. Her first book, Sin in the Second City,…
