Books

It was a great year for new books on music. I was able to get through a giant stack of  them in the last...

Many parents want to stop time. They’d like to keep their children small and innocent and exactly a certain age — if not forever,...

You can tell a lot about a person from the way they say the word “coyote.”  The conventional wisdom is that people west of the...

The couple opening the nation’s third poetry-only bookstore on the Hill knew of the uphill battle they would face trying to make their living off an art form many consider stuffy and inaccessible. In fact, according to Brian Buckley, who co-owns Innisfree Poetry ...

In a world that plunks authors into brushed-aside categories like science fiction, fantasy and romance, one author is tiring of the “guilty pleasure” label...

Jon Bassoff finds inspiration for dark novel out on the Great Plains

You could say Jonathon Stalls is a full-time pedestrian. You could probably glean that from his toe shoes, well-worn walking stick and routine propensity...

"Young women, be wary of windows as you sit shuttling needle through a full white moon of cloth. ...” So opens the poem “The Fall” in a...

Novelist Paul G. Tremblay was on a flight home to New England when the idea for his 2018 novel, The Cabin at the End...

G. Willow Wilson has spent her life telling stories. She’s told her own in her graphic novel Cairo and memoir Butterfly Mosque. She’s chronicled...

Peter Heller is nothing if not consistent. In interviews going back more than a decade to the publication of his first best-selling novel, The...

Poet Jessica Lawson started out writing what she thought would be a book of poems themed around maps. “Shortly into the writing process, Donald Trump...