Reading Around

The old tree stood marked with two great slashes of an orange X. Insect- riddled and storm torn, sucha lean to it that leaves trailed [...]

In the summer yard, the roof of skyis a blue you’ve waited for, with nothing shyabout clouds of flowers heady with scentthat could make [...]

Bennedith, age 45, a Swedish writer, arrives in a sweltering Madrid to begin a writer’s grant. After settling into the two-bedroom [...]

Summer envelops like a light cloth across ones shouldersWaiting for the earth to bloomTime is slow, even and nowand everything is out and [...]

Emma Hawke’s first marriage to Derrick was not a match made in heaven. Before their honeymoon was over, he had already shown his true [...]

A mother loves, cares, never lets go. When Henry Bird goes missing, his mother, Helen, knows he would never disappear voluntarily, [...]

Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lake brings us yet another lonely, sad woman who drinks too much, begins spying on her neighbors, and [...]

Readers often wonder how novelists come up with ideas for their books. For Joey Hartstone, that moment came while he was having drinks with [...]