Often we pick up a book to escape. While the pages turn, the real world ceases to exist. But for Nina Sankovitch, books led her back to reality. After a devastating loss, Nina read a book a day for an entire year. Each story helped her navigate, and ultimately survive, her grief. Nina’s debut [...]
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Photo by John Dugdale Many of us remember crawling into bed, blankets tucked in firmly, and looking up as someone’s hand slowly turned the pages of a picture book. In that magical moment our bedroom would transform, the images on those pages eclipsing the walls, the floor, the ceiling. Maurice Sendak captured the power [...]
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Joshua Ferris’s novels, The Unnamed and Then We Came to an End share something in common: they focus on people who are pushed to an extreme. In different scenarios, Ferris considers just what it means to explore the terrifying places that lie beyond personal limitations. One of Ferris’s most outstanding gifts is his ability to [...]
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Rae Gouirand lives in Davis, California, leads private workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction throughout the Central Valley, and blogs about teaching and writing life at allonehum.wordpress.com. Her first collection of poems, Open Winter, was selected by Elaine Equi for the 2011 Bellday Prize for Poetry and is currently a finalist for the Audre Lorde [...]
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Time Out (New York) described Justin Taylor‘s gift as “illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.” He accomplished just that in his short story collection, Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, and his debut novel, The Gospel of Anarchy. He also has a wicked sense of humor, demonstrated in the following interview. [...]
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Julie Metz is a graphic designer, artist, and freelance writer whose essays have appeared in publications including Glamour and Hemispheres magazines, and the online story site mrbellersneighborhood.com. The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughter and partner. Her memoir, Perfection, is now available in paperback. You write about grief and lies with [...]
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