ISage author Keith Ridgway’s latest novel is in a dilemma, both mischievous and dangerous. The book’s epigraph is taken from a bleary-eyed ballad alluding to the “lofty” grandeur of the Rocks of Dunin. But these lines are accompanied by a footnote warning that “Debate continues regarding the rocks named in the song – whether they
TeaHistorian and novelist Fiona Moseley acknowledged in a 2018 article for the Guardian that the city of York was a major influence on both of her careers. Childhood and adolescence in a place like York, full of time and space, can generate conflict between “the desire to live in the past and the need to
Birth. “Something breaking, coming loose, then the pain of it.” A small, bent and wrinkled creature has recovered from that pain. But then, instead of the long-awaited cry of a newborn baby: silence. This is the backdrop to Anna Goldreich’s highly accomplished, quietly devastating debut novel The Leverette, a book that asks us to see
Plot of A Little Bit Bad Sounds like the setup for a joke: “Like, this white woman is lusting after her hot Chicano roofer?” The narrator Perdita Jungfrau is describing her situation. “Yuck.” It is 2009 and Perdita is 39 when she meets 25-year-old Nando, who is working on the roof next door. “Burned out”
TeaIt’s the last day of maternity leave, and an unnamed mother of two has decided to celebrate a “Yes Day” full of treats and good feelings. Of course it doesn’t go according to plan: behavior is lacking, misjudged and underappreciated; Good feelings are fleeting, quickly extinguished by worry, guilt, or humiliation. This familiar-sounding scenario is
wAshington Augustus Roebling, or “Wash”, was the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened to the public on May 24, 1883. It was quite an accomplishment, but he didn’t do it alone. On one side was his father, the ascetic and tyrant John Roebling,
‘TeaHere’s a place in Italy that needs someone. Why don’t you pay attention to that?” Inspired by his two-year stint directing the Writers’ Residency at the Santa Maddalena Foundation outside Florence, with these words American writer Andrew Sean Greer launches Coco, Baronessa Lisabetta, a helpless, clueless innocent into the embrace of the Tuscan hills and