Book Recs

Transporting Fiction

Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan, author of the debut novel Salt Houses, recommends five books sure to take you to another place.

Junior Edition #42

Celia McGee

Christina Baker Kline on Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christina Baker Kline

I was six years old; we had recently moved to Maine from Tennessee, and my father read it aloud to my sister Cynthia and me, one chapter at a...

Looking West

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

In this list of recommendations, L.A. transplant and author of the massive hit novel The Nest ,Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney writes...

Fictional Reinventions

Dawn Tripp

The bestselling author of Georgia, Dawn Tripp, recommends five novels that reassemble and illuminate...

Getting to Know Harry Stephen Keeler

January 22nd marks the 50th anniversary of prolific mystery and sci-fi writer Harry Stephen Keeler’s death. We asked writer and editor...

In Poe's Shadow

Peter Straub

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday on January 19th we asked master horror writer Peter Straub (and editor of the anthology Poe’s...

Five Deeply Strange Reads

Matt Bell

Shifts in time, changelings, organic buildings, levitating grandmothers, and all things odd inhabit this list from Matt Bell, author of A...

Writing the Holocaust

Andrew Gross

In Andrew Gross’s new book, the historical thriller The One Man, physicist Alfred Mendl is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp

Queer Literature Top Five

Sassafras Lowrey

The author of Lost Boi picks five of hir current favorites from LGBTQ fiction.