May 8, 2020
by Mandy Bayrami
For Mother's Day this year we've rounded up three books that appreciate moms of all kinds—read on for excerpts from an uproariously funny novel, a moving memoir, and a powerful poetry collection.
August 31, 2015
by Evan Munday
In my book series,
The Dead Kid Detective Agency, our valiant narrator October Schwartz experiences not only great personal humiliation (after all, her nickname is “Zombie Tramp”), but any number of other more real dangers, like bayonet-wielding history teachers, phone-booth ... Read more
November 5, 2014
by Maurice Mierau
My new book,
Detachment: An Adoption Memoir, deals with the most intimate aspects of family life. As you’d expect from the title, that includes the adoption of our sons, and their new lives with me and my wife Betsy. But it also includes the most difficult and personal ... Read more