"How I Became Me" tells the story of the Danielle Clift’s tumultuous childhood and adolescence and her journey out of addiction into a happy adulthood. The memoir details Clift’s rocky early years as she moves from house to house... Read More

"My Own Magic" explores a fictional classroom’s experience of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) through the voice of one of its female students, Morgan. Salem Elementary School invites a famous author, Ms. Prosaic, to assist the... Read More

Born in 1908, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh used his camera and a keenly sensitive eye to chronicle the epic known as the twentieth century. Karsh’s portraits of some of the most celebrated men and women of recent times... Read More

Newcomer Alicia Wright Brewster debuts with a novella of urban fantasy centered on a fallen angel called Six. Sent to Hell for no reason she can discern (and no one’s bothered to tell her, either), Six enlists the aid of Alden, an... Read More

From 2009 to her graduation in 2011, a young woman studying at Mount Holyoke College maintained a blog containing personal thoughts, opinions, and reflections. Using the pseudonym Rinth de Shadley (her real nickname, Rinth, and... Read More

Ron McCrea’s Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss covers the years from 1910 through 1914, the period during which the architect conceived and built his masterpiece in the hills of Wisconsin, accompanied by... Read More

Warning: QUINOA AND GALLERY OPENINGS MAY BE HARMFUL TO THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OTHERS. This message could serve as a logical (albeit silly) label affixed to Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America. Most Americans have a... Read More

Herb Silverman is one of the most congenial atheists anyone could ever want to meet. Atheists have a reputation for being abrasive, pugnacious, and scornful. But Silverman isn’t like that at all. He’s a breath of fresh air.... Read More