What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write 680 Miles Away? After I published “6 Blocks Home,” readers immediately started asking about a sequel. One person in particular—one of my high school Bible study students—made me promise I would get ... More »
Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, ... More »
Jaime Herndon finished her MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia, after leaving a life of psychosocial oncology and maternal-child health work. She is a writer, editor, and book reviewer who drinks way too much coffee. She is a new-ish mom, so the coffee comes... More »
Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regul... More »
Patricia Elzie-Tuttle is a writer, podcaster, librarian, and information fanatic who appreciates potatoes in every single one of their beautiful iterations. Patricia earned a B.A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern Californ... More »
Susie (she/her) is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, now living in Washington, DC. She is the author of QUEERLY BELOVED and the forthcoming LOOKING FOR A SIGN from Dial Press/Random House. You can find her on Instagram @susiedoom. View All posts ... More »
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.FINISH WHAT WE STARTED: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy, by Isaac ArnsdorfD... More »
Alana S. Portero’s debut, “Bad Habit,” follows one woman’s coming-of-age in a blue-collar Madrid neighborhood.BAD HABIT, by Alana S. Portero. Translated by Mara Faye Lethem.Madrid Me Mata — or Madrid Murders Me, to replicate the alliterative Spanish — was the ... More »
Spring! There’s no better time of year for a baseball romance. We’ll wind up the column with a much-anticipated book by Cat Sebastian, but we lead off with KT Hoffman’s endearing and tender new novel, THE PROSPECTS (Dial, 346 pp., paperback, $18).The minor-lea... More »
Enlarge this image Riders pass a baton during a Pony Express relay race in Okmulgee, Okla. Ivan McClellan/Ivan McClellan Ivan McClella... More »
Enlarge this image Adam Moss allowed NPR into a space only two other people have seen: his painting studio. Adam Moss Adam Moss ... More »
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Emily Henry about her new book FUNNY STORY and the difficulty of writing a genuinely nice person while also creating obstacles in getting two people together.JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Picture this - you hav... More »