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Author Interviews
An Interview with Michele Weldon
Author of Act Like You’re Having a Good Time 2021 Winner of SCN’s Gilda Award Michele Weldon writes frequently for many publications, including the Washington Post and USA Today. Her books include I Closed My Eyes: Revelations of a Battered Woman; Writing to Save Your Life: How to […]
Interviewed by: Pat Bean
Memoir and Autobiography
The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s
Mary MacCracken writes with honest poignancy in beautiful prose in The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s as she shares her observations and tribulations of her beloved husband’s journey into dementia. The book’s dedication sets the tone: “For Cal MacCracken, May all know love like […]
Dragons in my Classroom
Maria Popova, a Bulgarian-born American writer, once said, “…it can take us years or decades of hindsight and reflection to arrive at the truth of our experience, any experience, and all the more so the greater its complexity and its toll on us.” Teaching, whether in a public […]
Nonfiction
Wax Prints of the Sahel
Opening Debra S. Boyd’s latest book, Wax Prints of the Sahel, felt like opening a treasure chest filled with rich, vibrantly colored fabrics, each with a story I couldn’t wait to discover. Inside the cover, page after page of African cultural history revealed itself as wax printed fabrics […]
Poetry
The Illusiveness of Gray
In The Illusiveness of Gray, poet Carol Smallwood shares recollections, revelations, and moments of inspiration sparked by a laser focus on surroundings. She proves herself versatile as a poet by including poetic forms such as triplets, cinquains, and tercets combined with occasional rhyme and a rhythmic litany of […]