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I met Melanie Wells at a book festival in East Texas last month—she'll tell you a little more about that—and I've become a big fan... Read the rest of this post

Alaya Dawn Johnson is a young fantasy writer whose debut novel, Racing the Dark from Powells.com.">Racing the Dark, has been drawing comparisons to authors like... Read the rest of this post

Yesterday, I shared an essay from Joshua Henkin about how he dealt with the characters in his new novel, Matrimony from Powells.com.">Matrimony, over such a... Read the rest of this post

I began reading Joshua Henkin's new novel, Matrimony from Powells.com.">Matrimony, last month while I was serving jury duty, and the story immediately engrossed me; the... Read the rest of this post

Instead of telling us about one of his favorite short story writers, as many Beatrice guests do when they have a new collection of their... Read the rest of this post

This week's edition of FiveChapters.com features "Witnessing," one of my favorite stories from the Jennifer S. Davis collection Our Former Lives in Art from Powells.com.">Our... Read the rest of this post

I first met Jane Green at a Cosmopolitan reception earlier this summer honoring some of the magazine's favorite "fun and fearless" women writers, and we... Read the rest of this post

I love Buy God Is Dead from Powells.com.">God Is Dead, the debut novel from Ron Currie, Jr. Well, it's more of a collection of linked... Read the rest of this post

I've been noticing a slight increase in the number of linked short story collections lately, so when Tess Uriza Holthe's The Five Forty-Five to Cannes... Read the rest of this post

I went to see Robert Anthony Siegel read from his latest novel, All Will Be Revealed from Powells.com.">All Will Be Revealed, about a month or... Read the rest of this post

When I got word of Elizabeth Hickey's second novel, The Wayward Muse from Powells.com.">The Wayward Muse, I was intrigued—I knew that Hickey's first novel, The... Read the rest of this post

The publication of your first novel is supposed to be a time for celebration, but for Maggie Leffler, life is a bit more complicated. In... Read the rest of this post

As I read the opening scenes of James Cañón's Tales from the Town of Widows from Powells.com.">Tales from the Town of Widows, I was impressed... Read the rest of this post

Maureen Dowd wrote a particularly silly column about chick lit for the New York Times over the weekend, and though Sarahbeth Purcell doesn't consider herself... Read the rest of this post

Kyra Davis was one of the many authors with something to say about Maureen Dowd's anti-chick lit column over the weekend (I collated a lot... Read the rest of this post