This piece was originally published on the Island Books blog. Growing up, I loved getting lost in books: It didn’t matter to me if the book was adventurous, dramatic, suspenseful, or fantastical; as long as it transported me somewhere else, I was happy. I’d be so immersed in my book that I’d barely hear my …
from Andrea Dunlop’s newsletter August 15, 2018 One of the biggest challenges of being a working novelist is balancing the deep, focused work of actually writing your books with the promoting of those books, the part that requires you to be in the world both online and off. Both are necessary and I generally enjoy …
LAURIE FRANKEL: BEING A GIRL IS HARD BUT AWESOME published on LitHub March 2, 2018 In my twenties, in graduate school, I thought a lot about my daughter. She didn’t exist yet, but when you’re studying fiction for a living, this doesn’t matter as much. I had long observed that being a girl in the …
Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. There are now several books for children about the topic: historical fiction as well as nonfiction. Scholastic, the children’s publisher, put together a helpful resource page for adults to help children understand and process 9/11 as well as other general tough issues that are in …
SEATTLE – Learning about science doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, it can be really fun for kids and parents. Lynn Brunelle stopped by New Day to show us some fun solar eclipse experiments you can do at home. She also shared a creative way to explain lunar phases to kids … with Oreo cookies! Brunelle and …
Laurie Frankel writes novels, reads novels, teaches other people to write novels, and raises a small person who reads and would like someday to write novels in Seattle, Wash. In Frankel’s latest novel, This Is How It Always Is (Flatiron Books), the youngest of five boys decides he wants to be a girl, and his …
While some of us boast about an arduous 7-mile hike along a well-traveled trail, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, have trekked more than 7,000 miles of Alaska’s wilderness. By foot and by packraft, they travel around Alaska, both for their love of adventuring, but also on behalf of their nonprofit, Ground Truth Trekking. The …
In most parts of the world, the literary life stands in opposition to action. Writers nearly everywhere are expected to do nothing more than sit thoughtfully at their desks, and they may even get to enjoy a cocktail while they ponder. But around here, they’re expected to be rugged adventurers as well as intellectuals, composing …
