Sitemap - 2022 - Read Her Like an Open Book

CHARMED PARTICLES sensitively examines two families and a community undergoing a transformation

Kia Corthron talks about her novel of Black and Irish immigrant life in 1860s New York City, MOON AND THE MARS

TAKE WHAT YOU NEED examines a complicated mother-daughter relationship set against life in a dying Appalachian town

Joyce Carol Oates Prize announces longlist of 32 authors

Ramona Reeves on the Long Journey to Her Debut Short Story Collection

Here's a Monday morning grab-bag of stories and year-end best-of lists you may have missed

Flannery O'Connor Award winner Toni Ann Johnson: Growing Up Black in a Small White Town

THE COLOR OF ICE: A woman’s journey of awakening to her true self

A conversation with Hannah Sward on writing her new memoir, STRIP

2022 Book Awards Wrap-up

Thrity Umrigar: My Inviolate Soul

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Robin Antalek on Flipping the Gender Voice: When Women Write Male Characters

HOW WE DISAPPEAR explores the missing and those searching for their place

A conversation with Barbara Linn Probst about the writing of THE COLOR OF ICE

Barbara Linn Probst on The Miracle Question: Walking Backward to “What Do I Really Want?”

ALA announces longlist for 2023 Carnegie Medal in Fiction

Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize for Literature

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois wins 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Ann Mah returns today with JACQUELINE IN PARIS but is unable to promote it due to illness

THE MISSING WORD is a brilliant exploration of the mind of a mother who has lost her children

Jill Stukenberg: Can You Write Eco-fiction Without Knowing It? (What’s in a Genre Label?)

WE MEASURE THE EARTH WITH OUR BODIES captures the essence of being Tibetan through the experiences of a refugee family across 60 years and two continents

Wanting Only to Be Heard: The Emerging Author as a Woman

The 7am Novelist offers free online seven-week fiction webinar/podcast

Piedmont Laureate Heather Bell Adams on the writing process that works for her

Summer Reading Recap

Ruth O. Saxton on celebrating women of a certain age in fiction

Booker Prize longlist of 13 announced

VERA tells the story of a girl and a city coming of age after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

Elizabeth Poliner: How mapping the stories of Alice Munro made me a better writer

Kalani Pickhart wins 2022 NYPL Young Lions Award for I WILL DIE IN A FOREIGN LAND

Fathers' Day favorites: Eight novels by women for the men in your life

Washington Post book critic Ron Charles on men not reading fiction by women

THE WISE WOMEN explores mother-daughter and sibling dynamics in a fresh, witty and wise way

The Guardian runs feature promoting the idea of men reading women

Kelly I. Hitchcock: An Open Letter to Librarians Everywhere

THE SHARP EDGE OF MERCY vividly depicts a young nurse's personal, financial and ethical struggles in 1893 NYC

Mary Vensel White on the texture of story

Caitlin Hamilton Summie: Writing it the way I hear it

THE WISE WOMEN author Gina Sorell on judging a book by its cover

OPAL & NEV, MATRIX, COMPANY OF MEN win prestigious fiction prizes

Caroline Leavitt: How and why I changed the way I map my novels

JINWAR AND OTHER STORIES is an unsparing look into the lives of women during and after war in the Middle East

For love of animals: Debra Thomas on the saving grace of animals in life and literature

Eight women writers–including Rebecca Makkai, Maaza Mengiste, Ladee Hubbard and Melissa Febos–among those chosen for prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships

FRENCH BRAID is quintessential Anne Tyler: a closely observed, compassionate story of a quirky family

A young woman comes of age amidst the complex reality of life in 1940s North Carolina in THE TOBACCO WIVES

PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING an absorbing family drama of war, migration, and heritage—and the power of stories to heal

THE FIVE WOUNDS introduces an unforgettable family of flawed but very human characters saved by love

Finalists for 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize announced

Maya Shanbhag Lang on self-discovery through weight lifting

April-May preview: Six novels to add to your must-read list

MY MONTICELLO is an impressive debut that wrestles with the past, present and possible future of being Black in America

Ten impressive short story collections you may have missed

12 stellar short story collections you might have missed

February-April fiction preview: 10 books to add to your TBR list

National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for 2021 awards

2022 gets off to a good start with four impressive novels

My Top 21 Books of '21