Several months ago, one of my mother’s childhood friends died. Margie was a librarian, teacher, writer, activist. Although we hadn’t connected in many years, she remained a vivid part of my memory of childhood, very much the color Red. At…
Jason June’s JAY’S GAY AGENDA is a new, delightfully queer YA about life after coming out. When teen Jay is officially known as the only gay student at his school, he’s overjoyed to find out he’s moving to super-queer Seattle….
“Society cannot exist,” the philosopher Edmund Burke cautioned, without “a controlling power upon will and appetite…men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” A similar warning may reside in The Rock Eaters, Brenda Peynado’s beautifully bizarre…
In 1993, Jeff Arch’s screenplay Sleepless in Seattle became a hit movie, won him an Academy Award nomination, and launched a thirty-year career writing for films. For most of those years, though, Jeff was haunted by a story that insisted…
Mary-Kim Arnold and Matthew Derby are married writers who live in Pawtucket, RI. Mary-Kim is the author of The Fish & The Dove, a poetry collection, and Litany for the Long Moment, a book-length experimental memoir about the failed search…
Sheba Karim’s new novel, The Marvelous Mirza Girls, follows the gap-year adventures of Noreen, who moves to New Delhi from New Jersey with her hip single mom, Ruby, to recover from the recent death of her beloved aunt. During their…