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Two Faces of the Moon
Carolyn McGrath’s memoir is as reflective and inspiring as the full moon she describes sending luminous ripples across water highlighting a path through the trees near her summer retreat. Her descriptions of the natural world on and surrounding a tiny island that became “hers” in Ontario, Canada will […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: environment, Family relations, Good Books, nature, Review of the Month
Tags: environment, Family relations, Good Books, nature, Review of the Month
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Fiction
Beware the Tall Grass
Ellen Birkett Morris’s novel Beware the Tall Grass (Columbus State University Press, March 2024) weaves what appear at first blush to be two disconnected stories together in ways that are alternatingly troubling, thought-provoking, and, ultimately, deeply sad and resonant as the novel reaches its conclusions. The worlds of […]
The Rossetti Diaries
Trends in art, music, literature, and life come and go, but author Kathleen Williams Renk uncovers a most interesting history regarding a group of artists rebelling against idealistic portrayals such as those popularized by the Italian artist Rafael. While Rafael imagined and painted beautiful scenes of Jesus’s life […]
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Biographical fiction, Family relations, Female friendship, Good Books, History, Women's rights, Writers and writing
Tags: Biographical fiction, Family relations, Female friendship, Good Books, History, Women's rights, Writers and writing
Memoir and Autobiography
Castles & Ruins
“At the age of seven in the summer of 1965, I lived on an island in Galway, Ireland with my mother Deborah Love, father Peter Matthiessen, and my twelve-year-old stepbrother Luke from my father’s first marriage. . . . Across the waterway from our island in Ireland that […]
Our Favorite Authors
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An Interview with Susan J. Tweit
Author of Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying Winner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Memoir Award Susan J. Tweit has been published in a diversity of magazines and newspapers, including Audubon, Popular Mechanics, High Country News, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work has […]
Categories: Author Interviews, Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, grief, Our Favorite Authors
Tags: Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, grief, Our Favorite Authors
