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Discover The Survivalists, Kashana Cauley’s Sharp and Witty Debut (January 10, 2023)
Casey Parks’ Diary of a Misfit Is a Brutal and Brave Memoir of Queer Identity (August 26, 2022)
Joyce Carol Oates keeps breaking her own glass ceiling (Summer print issue, 2022)
Jean Hanff Korelitz returns with a novel that skewers privilege (June 9, 2022)
Julia Glass’s latest, “Vigil Harbor” (May 24, 2022)
In “Body Work,” Melissa Febos Declares That “Writing Is a Form of Freedom (March 10, 2022)
Los Angeles Times
Aparna Nancherla Makes Comedy Out of Self-Doubt (September 19, 2023)
A new novel nails one kind of Covid experience. (July 4, 2023)
A white author and a Black editor teamed up to write bestsellers. It wasn’t always easy. (June 12, 2023)
Resurrecting a mammoth — and a family — in Ramona Ausubel’s wild and woolly new novel (April 18, 2023)
Travis Bickle, meet Toni Morrison in Priya Guns’ New Novel (March 1, 2023)
How Barbara Kingsolver Makes Literature Topical (October 18, 2022)
How LA’s Writers Spent Their Two-Year Pandemic (March 16, 2022)
Debbie Millman on Why Design Matters (February 23, 2022)
On Baring (Almost) All in Stories (January 28, 2022)
Author Hilma Wolitzer lost her husband to COVID-19. So at 91, she wrote a story about it (August 26, 2021)
For a scorched-earth memoirist, truth-telling is a feminist act: A Profile of Gina Frangello (March 31, 2021)
A Novelist’s Fierce Homage to New Mexico’s Latinx Heritage: Q&A with Kirstin Valdez Quade (March 27, 2021)
Everything You Should Know About The Hollywood New Books Boom (February 11, 2021)
David Duchovny has more passions than his new protagonist has wives (Jan 27, 2021)
Younger by Pamela Redmond (Sept 8, 2020)
Q&A: For the love of celebrity with Julie Klam, author of ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ (Aug 18, 2017)
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown (July 28, 2017)
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix (March 24, 2016)
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes (Nov 29, 2015)
Refund by Karen Bender (Jan 25, 2015)
Some Luck by Jane Smiley (Oct 12, 2014)
BookRiot
The Book I Can’t Stop Recommending: Novelist Meredith Maran (March 2012)
Boston Globe
The Way We Weren’t by Jill Talbot (July 31, 2015)
Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht (Jan 23, 2015)
Mothers and Lovers by Maria Flook (Dec 31, 2014)
Joan of Arc by Kathryn Harrison (Nov 1, 2014)
Eat, Drink & Remarry by Margo Howard (Oct 17, 2014)
What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey (Sep 2, 2014)
News From Heaven by Jennifer Haigh (January 22, 2013)
This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman (August 7, 2011)
Chicago Tribune
Don’t Call Me Princess by Peggy Orenstein (February 20, 2018)
Vacationland by George Hodgman (Oct 31, 2017)
The Stars in our Eyes by Julie Klam (July 18, 2017)
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown (July 10, 2017)
Every Kind of Wanting by Gina Frangello (Sept 14, 2016)
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor (July 19, 2016)
Bukowski in a Sundress by Kim Addonizio (July 8, 2016)
Alain de Botton considers love again in new novel Alain de Botton (June 15, 2016)
The Houseguest Kim Brooks (May 3, 2016)
The Narrow Door Paul Lisicky (Jan 21, 2016)
The Lightkeepers Abbi Geni (January 6, 2016)
White Dresses Mary Plum (Nov 12, 2015)
How to Cook a Moose Kate Christensen (Sept 17, 2015)
Fates and Furies Lauren Groff (Sept 10, 2015)
Mrs. Bennet Has Her Say Jane Juska (July 30, 2015)
Blackout Sarah Hepola (June 18, 2015)
Our Town Kevin McEnroe (May 7, 2015)
What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas (April 2, 2015)
Unabrow Una La Marche (March 26, 2015)
My Sunshine Away by Mo Walsh (Feb 12, 2015)
The Woman I Wanted to Be by Diane von Furstenberg (Dec 18, 2014)
Electric City by Elizabeth Rosner (Nov 13, 2014)
Being Miss America by Kate Shindle (Nov 6, 2014)
Powers of Two by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Aug 22, 2014)
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (Aug 15, 2014)
Life Drawing by Robin Black (June 20, 2014)
A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman (June 1, 2014)
Christian Science Monitor
The Misfit’s Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavich (Oct 30, 2017)
My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul (May, 1, 2017)
Hourglass by Dani Shapiro (April 12, 2017)
Good Housekeeping
The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward (February 2015)
Wake Up Happy Every Day by Stephen May (December 2014)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (November 2014)
Washington Post
Menopause can be miserable. Jancee Dunn aims to make it better (May 8, 2023)
Hannah Halperin’s New Addiction Novel (April 5, 2023)
How Laura Zigman mines real life to create memorable fiction (January 5, 2023)
Michelle Tea’s memoir exposes the pain—and comedy of infertility. (August 26, 2022)
Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward: Unlikely couple and artistic force (April 3, 2022)
Lan Samantha Chang Likes a Challenge (January 30, 2022)
Deborah Copaken Never Wanted to be Shutterbabe (August 3, 2021)
For Today’s Feminists, Sex Makes a Comeback (June 17, 2021)
Glennon Doyle doesn’t work alone: The ‘Untamed’ author and agent Margaret Riley King discuss their creative process (March 24, 2021)
Q&A with Anne Lamott: Dusk Night Dawn: On Revival and Courage (March 1, 2021)
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg (March 1, 2017)
Los Angeles Review of Books
To Rouse and Repel: A Conversation with Maggie Nelson on the Rhetoric of Freedom (September 20, 2021)
The Unruliness of Life: A Conversation with Marisa Silver (May 14, 2021)
No Guarantees: An Interview with Christina Baker Kline (Nov 29, 2020)
Horror Has Become Normal: An Interview with Gish Jen (July 8, 2020)
One Voice in a Great Chorus: An Interview with Rebecca Solnit (June 15, 2020)
Declassified: An Interview with Jessica Pearce Rotondi (June 12, 2020)
What It All Meant: A Conversation with Alex Halberstadt (March 10, 2020)
Funhouse Mirror: An Interview with Laura Zigman on “Separation Anxiety” (March 2, 2020)
The Unthought Known: An Interview with Dani Shapiro (February 7, 2019)
She Wants It by Jill Soloway (November 29, 2018)
Q&A: For the love of celebrity with Julie Klam, author of ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ (Aug 18, 2017)
Early Warning by Jane Smiley (May 18, 2015)
People Magazine
Ruby by Cynthia Bond (February 11, 2015)
Small Victories by Anne Lamott (November 24, 2014)
The Secret Place by Tana French (September 18, 2014)
The Vacationers by Emma Straub (June 6, 2014)
No Book but the World by Leah Hager Cohen (April 10, 2014)
The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy (December 2, 2013)
Stitches by Anne Lamott (November 1, 2013)
Longbourn by Jo Baker (October 18, 2013)
Margot by Jillian Cantor (September 16, 2013)
Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich (July 29, 2013)
Blue Plate Special by Kate Christensen (July 22, 2013)
The Why of Things by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop (June 24, 2013)
Sparta by Roxana Robinson (June 21 2013)
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver (June 21 2013)
Homeward Bound by Emily Matchar (May 29, 2013)
Mirror Mirror by Kjerstin Gruys (May 22, 2013)
The Humanity Project by Jean Thompson (May 15, 2013)
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (April 8, 2013)
Abide With Me by Sabine Willett (April 1, 2013)
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver (March 25, 2013)
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin (February 11, 2013)
She Matters by Susanna Sonnenberg (January 21, 2013)
San Francisco Chronicle
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (April 20, 2018)
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (February 8, 2018)
I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This by Nadja Spiegelman (Aug 26, 2016)
How to Party With an Infant by Kaui Hart (Aug 11, 2016)
A Wedding in Provence by Ellen Sussman (July 31, 2014)
The Secret Life of Objects by Dawn Raffel (July 2, 2012)
Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon (June 3, 2012)
No Cheating, No Dying by Elizabeth Weil (February 5, 2012)
The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate (September 11, 2011)
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (May 31, 2011)