Treat yourself to this interview with Annie Bloom’s Will and Ruby. It’s less than 18 minutes long, and it’s professionally produced by Oregon artist Leif Olsen, who also composed the music, as part of theliferecording.com. Olsen records the life stories of parents, grandparents, widows, and widowers—then sets them to original music—because no one’s story should …
Truly the only novel about an MFA poetry program that matters; part parody, part homage, and another Cyrano de Bergerac retelling, this ridiculous farce of collegiate-town manners and betrayal is a heady read. –Ruby, Annie Bloom’s Books, Portland, OR Poetry month theme reading can include novels, too– novels in verse and novels about poetry. Ask for …
So if there wasn’t enough tension and the stakes weren’t high enough in Casey McQuiston’s Red, White, and Royal Blue (there was, and they were) now we’re given One Last Stop: a girl lost in time and a romance that’s destined to be a missed connection. Good to the last drop! Just like RW&RB it …
This book is all about great characters and the things (and people) that have gone astray in their lives: their fingers, their sense of direction, their job, their ability not to become a tree. We all know the lesson– when things are lost we find other things, sometimes the things other people have lost. Knowing …
Book of Ages opens wide the eighteenth century through a narrow subject. Jane Franklin, sister to the famous Benjamin, comes to life through Lepore’s compassionate and humorous prose. This is the biography of a common and fascinating woman, but one whose life was not considered worthy of a historical biography in her own time. In Book of …
