Literary Reflections

Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-Editor, writes: “I’m currently reading Sparkle Life by Kara Lindstrom, a smart, sexy book about three thirty-something women who are looking for love and making movies. I…

Because we Literary Mamas are always hungry for good food and good books, this month we feature our Essential Reading in Food Writing.

In her essay, “Barbara Delinsky Does Not Need Me,” Sandra Miller expresses great admiration for and a personal connection to bestselling author Barbara Delinsky. Describing the opportunity she had to…

Barbara Delinsky does not need me. She’s had seventeen New York Times bestsellers, including her most recent novel, Family Tree, which just cracked the list at number twelve. It’s her…

Editor and Columnist Caroline Grant has just finished

Blog Editor Amy Mercer is reading Amy Bloom’s Away: A Novel. “I received a free copy of this book thanks to Writers Revealed Virtual Book Club. Away tells the story…

In “Why Mother Pigs Eat Their Young,” Kristin Reed remembers something her mother once said to her: “I felt my mother’s expression take over my face, the one she had…

Here it is, another Sunday night, another week gone, and I haven’t written one word worth keeping. My characters refuse to communicate anything needed for this story to progress. It’s…

Columnist Elrena Evans “just finished reading Lottery by Patricia Wood, and it was so good I read an entire chapter standing in the middle of the staircase because I kind…

This month, as our children—and some of us—head into the classroom, our Essential Reading picks focus on teaching, education, and some of our best-loved classroom stories to share with the…

In June, just weeks after we found out I was pregnant, a purple finch built a nest on the fuse box outside our back door. The nest was small and…