Date: August 22, 2022
Heaven Knows Some days, you wake up and the light in the field is like swimming or moving through clear fog, is something that pushes back—not startling but steady pressure,
Date: August 22, 2022
“When looking for your next great read, it’s easy to gravitate towards romance novels with happy endings or fantasy books with satisfying conclusions. But just as horror fans love a creepy-crawly feeling and sci-fi readers crave the chaos […]
Date: August 22, 2022
Hopefully you’ve been following our recent comics journalism pieces on art and artists created by Reader contributor and former Chicagoan Coco Picard (her latest, an interview with artist and professor Nick Cave, was in our […]
Date: August 19, 2022
Writers are often inspired by some ghost—a lingering feeling or charge, whether attributed to one’s own inner psychological state or an honest-to-god spirit. I think of William Butler Yeats, for […]
Date: August 18, 2022
Both of my parents died when I was in my early twenties. I was still immersed in their friend group at the time, as well as close with my extended […]
Date: August 18, 2022
“In Learning to Live (Aprendendo a Viver), Clarice Lispector calls for ‘patience to observe the flowers, imperceptibly and slowly opening.” As plant philosopher Michael Marder points out in his essay, “Lispector and […]
Date: August 16, 2022
“My novel, The Healing Circle, follows Ursula, whose terminal disease makes her leave family and friends in California—friends who share her penchant for New Age remedies—for a miracle cure in Germany. […]
Date: August 12, 2022
The most formidable deadline I ever faced was in seventh grade. The end of the semester was approaching, and I suddenly realized I had five book reports due the next […]
Date: August 3, 2022
In The Healing Circle, a bad new age mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she […]
Date: August 3, 2022
Diane Thiel, author of Questions from Outer Space, had a poem, “Shadow and Light,” published on Verse Daily.
Date: September 23, 2020
The cover of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short story collection, Animal Wife, might make you scream. On it, a quintessential 1950’s housewife, dressed in a frilly apron and with a bow in […]
Date: September 21, 2020
A deftly crafted and entertaining work of impressive literary nuance, “Tea by the Sea” by Donna Hemans is an extraordinary, original, and inherently fascinating novel that is especially and unreservedly […]
Date: September 21, 2020
In the first of two envois that appear in Joshua Rivkin’s Suitor, a speaker defines the word that gives the collection its title: Suitor, from the Latin secutor,to follow. I can’tcatch them, or […]
Date: September 14, 2020
Jennifer Risher took a job in campus recruiting at Microsoft in 1991. She was 25 and given stock options worth several hundred thousand dollars. While working there, she met her […]
Date: September 10, 2020
Catherine wraps a fast-paced, stirring narrative about loss and unrequited love into a story about an unusually aggressive 17-year cicada swarm and the terror it brings to the residents of […]
Date: September 10, 2020
Rebecca McClanahan’s In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays is an exploration of what it means to live in a place, and, in fact, what it means to live […]
Date: September 10, 2020
Girls and women caught between myth and the modern world. Selected by Ann Hood as the winner of the Red Hen Fiction Award, Ehrlich’s debut collection contains 15 stories, some […]
Date: September 9, 2020
A ghost story that focuses not on a single spirit but on an entire city whose layered history haunts its occupants. “Meg had the unsettling sense that she was seeing […]
Date: September 9, 2020
Amy Shearn’s modern fable Unseen City is anchored by smart, sly humor. It delves into the layered social, psychological, and historical architecture of New York City, a place that’s paved over the […]
Date: September 3, 2020
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
