Wild Chickens for the Soul
byHui Zhou shares her love of the diverse “chickenalities” that come out in birds given free range
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Detail and Heart Highlight Marcia Pierce Harding’s Debut
byThis island adventure is reminiscent of The Hand of Robin Squires
Making Room for Newer and Better Things
byIn The Girl You Thought I Was, Morgan works through various pressures, insights and struggles over the course of a summer, sifting through her experiences and feelings to come to some concrete realizations about the benefits of letting go of the pressure to measure up to others’ standards
Jamie Fitzpatrick’s End of Music Explores the Love of Music, Loss of Love and Struggles With the Past
byThe central tie connecting the two story lines is music
Reading Books of War
byWar never ends; its impacts haunt the generations and the stories are innumerable, and always worthy of consideration
Allison LaSorda’s Sure-Footed Straying Into Thickets That Carress
byWandering the valleys of memory, chambers of relationship and intimacy
A Q&A With Rupert Clague, Who is Adapting Alistair MacLeod’s “In the Fall” to Film
by“Venturing out into blizzard, the squalls hitting me as though I was being stabbed by thousands of Lilliputians”