A few years ago, when I was shopping my now-shelved first novel, an industry insider told me to put the word “girls”…
The day Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara wrote her first song, Tegan was sick, and so Sara wore her twin sister’s…
According to one of my favorite consistently hyperbolic celebrity tabloids, Radar Online, Lori Loughlin is “pitching…
Oprah’s Book Club is back from a short hiatus I was fully unaware of ever taking place. Winfrey paid her BFF Gayle…
“Margaret Atwood’s new novel is being greeted as the long-awaited feminist dystopia, and I am afraid that for some…
“Marcel Marceau’s first wife divorced him in 1958,” Shawn Wen writes of the famous mime. “She said he would not…
Once again, as they have for several years running, women cleaned up at the Hugos, a premiere industry award for…
In Rachel Monroe’s book Savage Appetites, she describes something called a “crime funk.” It is when you might find…
Jacob Tobia’s new memoir is both timely and “oh so needed”—at least, that’s what the author tells us in the opening…
Lately, reading has been difficult for me; my attention span and my desire to focus on really anything have been…
Pity the protagonists of old-fashioned novels—just about everything seems to happen to them. They have an uncanny…
Kim Kardashian, arguably one of the most famous women in the world, has relied on the work of two surrogates to…
I spent a significant portion of every summer before the age of 16 camped out at the library, my parents too cheap…
For those who consider Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter—his 1974 book about Charles Manson, the murders he ordered,…
Despite the fact that it’s been well over a decade since I left formal schooling, my reading habits still stubbornly…
A paradox lies at the center of any memoir about suicide, the fact that one can’t write about the desire to kill…
Siri Hustvedt’s seventh novel, Memories of the Future, contains several references to Baby Face, a 1933 film…
'It All Feels Pretty Marvelous and Strange': Karen Russell on Florida, the Surreal, and Orange World
Two women survive a night at a haunted ski resort, mutant sisters navigate a post-apocalyptic Florida, a young woman…
With The Mister, E.L. James has done a great service to the romance novel, by demonstrating just how hard it is to…
Giving birth is an apocalypse: one world ends, another becomes. In Samantha Hunt’s Mr. Splitfoot, Cora sits alone in…