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 …
