Daniel Mason’s North Woods follows one house in the woods of New England as it passes through families (with inhabitants both human and not) and endures natural and human history. Mason joins us to talk about how he connected with his setting, writing a novel covering a large timespan, playing with form and more. The […]
I’ve never been to Ireland, but I know the exact town my family is from, and I still have relatives there. I’ve also downed my fair share of Irish whiskey, and read a lot of Irish authors. Here are the seven works that make me feel I’ve actually (well, almost) visited the land of my […]
There’s nothing better than a good tell-all memoir…except, of course, a tell-all memoir from someone whose past, present, and future we’ll never get to dig into. In other words, there’s nothing our fiction-obsessed souls crave more than to read every last detail about the lives of some of our favorite fictional characters. What were they thinking? What […]
If you’ve already laid in a supply of guacamole and stocked up on tequila for your Cinco de Mayo celebrations, may I suggest a more meaningful way to commemorate the Mexican army’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862? Why not honor the contributions of Mexican Americans to our country’s culture by […]