Now Reading

This June, when I packed our family’s suitcase for a week at the beach, the question of which paperback to bring floated over me: an invitation to which I hadn’t…

Our reading this month ranges from Maine to Istanbul to Sarajevo; check it out!

This month, our editors are reading about food and guilt, Hawaii and terrorism — not necessarily in the same book. See four nonetheless compelling selections below. Download the list to…

Want some great new book recommendations? See what our editors and columnists are reading now.

There are times when it feels as though voices from the short fiction section of the literary world are perpetually lamenting an ever-shrinking market for their genre, that publishers don’t…

Even though the Now Reading section isn’t necessarily thematic (as opposed to our Essential Reading section), sometimes the commonalities on this editors and columnists list just arise like a filigreed…

Our editors and columnists share their recent forays into essays, Burma, the afterlife, migration, and Chinese poetry below. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or…

I’m reading 11/22/63, Stephen King’s latest 850 page tome. I love it. It’s a great book. It’s on all the lists. Time travel. Characters. Dialogue. Blah, blah, blah. King needs…

I write this Now Reading post with great reluctance. My daughter is sleeping, the fire is burning in the wood stove, and I had to drag myself away from Suzanne…

This month, Literary Mama editors are reading about religion, the fall out from child abuse, a collection of short stories that one editor wishes were longer stories, and a mother-daughter…

Literary Mama editors share where their reading ventures have most recently brought them. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.