Staff Picks August 2024
Whimsy, wit, scandal, panic, and fateful first contact—the team leaves no stone unturned with this month's recs.
Hilarity, Heartbreak, and Writing with Constraints
Award-winning author Julie Schumacher answers a few Q’s about her new novel, The English Experience, in which a curmudgeonly professor is tasked with bringing a dozen undergrads to the UK.
Staff Picks July 2024
This month, the team shows off their insatiable curiosity and sense of adventure with a wildly diverse selection of staff picks—from the patient and lyrical, to the light and comical, to the dark and foreboding.
Staff Picks June 2024
Ask this crew for beach reads, and you get serial killers and, well, more serial killers. But also distressed stand-up comics. Happy summer!
Staff Picks May 2024
In which the team endorses surreal, weird, dark, funny, affirming, and eye-opening work — including a rare non-fiction pick.
Complexity, Darkness, and a Strange Sense of Fun: an Interview with Colin Winnette
Fiction writer Colin Winnette generously shares his thoughts on horror, speculative sci-fi, protagonistic (im)purity, and AI as a great motivator for creativity.
Staff Picks March 2024
Two Mona Awads is better than one, plus a bonus pick for Women’s History Month.
At The Heart of It: Local Author Stacey Agdern on Romance
Despite its undeniable popularity, with annual sales exceeding $1bn in 2022, romantic fiction remains a widely misunderstood genre. To get to the heart of it, we chatted with veteran romance writer Stacey Agdern about the past, present, and future of the genre.