Turning Music into Narrative
It’s no secret that 2016 has been a rough year for pop musicians. Did someone set off a slow-acting neutron bomb that kills platinum-sellers?
An Interview with Michelle Hoover, Author of Bottomland
Hoover’s BOTTOMLAND follows the Hess family’s struggle to stay together on the Iowa plains following the mysterious disappearance of two family members following World War I.
An Interview with E.B. Moore, Author of Stones in the Road
Following up on her critically-acclaimed debut novel An Unseemly Wife, E.B. Moore’s new release Stones in the Road follows eleven-year-old Joshua from his Amish home in Pennsy
An Interview with Lori Ostlund, Author of After the Parade
Lori Ostlund’s debut novel After the Parade follows the progress of ESL instructor Aaron Englund as he builds a new life for himself in San Francisco and reflects on a small-to
Here’s the Beef with Stakes
“What’s at stake here?” Sooner or later every fiction writer fields this question. Often the challenge appears as a single word – STAKES? – scrawled on a novel chapter or

