Andrea Leeb’s debut memoir, Such a Pretty Picture, is the brave, heart-breaking story of growing up with a predator—her own father—and a mother who must have known what was happening […]
Such a Pretty Picture: A Memoir
Author: Andrea Leeb
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Angels at the Gate
Author: Sheri Joseph
Since its publication in 1992, The Secret History by Donna Tartt has probably become the template for the genre of “novels about a group of privileged students at an elite […]
An Interview with Mariam Pirbhai
Author: Mariam Pirbhai
Author of Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging, 2024 Sarton Winner in Nonfiction After winning the Sarton Award for nonfiction for Garden Inventories, Mariam Pirbhai wondered what May Sarton, […]
Worthy
Author: Kerry Langan
What do we deserve from life, how far will we go to feel accepted, and whose rubric gets to measure our value? These are the very universal, very human quandaries […]
Becoming Sarah
Author: Diane Botnick
Many people associate the name Auschwitz with death and despair. But life also occurred at the place of horror. Diane Botnick based her novel on one of the few babies […]
That Which Binds Us
Author: Cathy Rigg
Clearly, Cathy Rigg loves the rugged Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia where her family ties go back seven generations. The four narrators of this beautifully written Civil War-era novel—Rigg’s debut—feel […]
