In 1974, disillusioned 34 year-old Polly works as a picture editor in the Illustrations Department for Encyclopedia Britannica. Her older, twice-divorced, live-in boyfriend is on an extended assignment in Saigon […]
Read MoreOne of the reasons I read is to learn about other people’s experiences and perspectives; I particularly enjoy reading about other cultures and the histories that created them. We can’t […]
Read MoreWinner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Contemporary Fiction Award Author Barbara Linn Probst sees her Sarton Award-winning book, The Sound Between the Notes, as encouragement for readers to embrace everything they […]
Read MoreWinter’s Reckoning is a beautifully crafted southern gothic story that portrays a startling similarity to contemporary events. While so much has changed since 1917, the setting of this book, so […]
Read MoreThe inequities of womanhood come across clear and strong in Cora’s Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown. And how timely for this book to come out now. It is no one’s […]
Read MoreMarcie Maxfield’s debut novel Em’s Awful Good Fortune is a hoot. The first sentence, “Sometimes I wish he would hit me,” quickly grabs my attention. Narrator Em’s wit describes the […]
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