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Literary Reflections

Darya Kraplak

Essential Reading: Historical Fiction

If you love books which transport you back in time, weave a story around the lives of medieval kings and queens, or recount the harrowing journey and integration of immigrants…

Literary Reflections | January 2020 | By Nerys Copelovitz


Meredith Porretta

Haunted:
The Gothic Motherhoods of Shirley Jackson and Diane Arbus

Jackson’s demons were clearly bigger and more terrifying than the conventional ones of balancing writing and childrearing. Yet she managed to give space and import to those smaller moments of…

Essays, Literary Reflections | November 2019 | By Eileen McGinnis


Laura Fuhrman

The Last Bedtime Story

But over the last year or so, no matter how engaging the book, I could never get through more than two or three pages before he’d decide that was enough.

Essays, Literary Reflections | November 2019 | By Ruth Dawkins


Meredith Porretta

Writing from a Pile of Shoes: Chronic Illness, Kids, and Creation

I had driving questions: How much caregiving can any one woman do without breaking down? Why do women seem so often to be the caregivers? What becomes of us when…

Essays, Literary Reflections | November 2019 | By Kathryn Trueblood


Rene Böhmer

Essential Reading: Crime

We’re focusing on crime, mystery and scary stories in this month’s Essential Reading recommendations. So if you like your reading material with some added tension, thrills or downright hair-raising horror,…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | November 2019 | By Nerys Copelovitz


Moren Hsu

Essential Reading: Favorites From Our School Days

With the back to school season in full swing we asked our staff to recommend their favorites books from that time and got a mixed bag of reads which we…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | September 2019 | By Nerys Copelovitz


Daniele Levis Pelusi

Get in the Car!

Just when I think I have all my essays dressed and ready, I’ll discover that one isn’t actually ready at all—and another is wandering off.

Essays, Literary Reflections | September 2019 | By Susannah Q. Pratt


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Essential Reading: Father’s Day

In honor of Father’s Day, in this month’s Essential Reading we are featuring books by male authors writing about life, parenting, and coming of age.

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | June 2019 | By Nerys Copelovitz


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Speaking Book

For me I realized, Jolabokaflod was an extension of a language I had been speaking with both passion and conviction my whole life. Jolabokaflod is about speaking book.

Essays, Literary Reflections | June 2019 | By Cindy Adelman Frank


Photo by Annie Spratt. See more of Annie's work at instagram.com/anniespratt/.

My Fledgling Reader

But that morning, I felt something sweeter than being needed. My little girl was taking wing and exploring her way through a world of images and words, independent of me.

Essays, Literary Reflections | May 2019 | By Julie Sonnek


Photo by Joren Aranas. See more of Joren's work at instagram.com/Joren.Aranas/.

Essential Reading: Mother’s Day

We are exploring the many colors of mothering with our reading recommendations this month with an “in the trenches” novel that will make you laugh out loud, an anthology of…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | May 2019 | By Nerys Copelovitz


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