Swati Avasthi is the co-curator (along with Heather Bouwman) of The Second Story Reading Series. This bi-monthly series features young adult and middle grade authors, pairing an emerging author with an established one. Swati is also the author of the just-released Split a young adult novel about a sixteen-year-old boy running from his abusive father. [...]
Last week when I got an e-mail from C.M. Harris, a former Loft classmate, about an upcoming Raking through Books event I let out a squeal of delight. Turns out she’s celebrating the launch of her debut novel, The Children of Mother Glory. This makes her the second Loft classmate to release a book (which [...]
Sure we’ve had an actual member of The Replacements and Charles Baxter (who needs no other disclaimer) answer our six questions. We’ve had friends and bloggers and authors we’ve grown to admire answer the questions. But I can say that without a doubt, posting Mattox Roesch’s answers fills me with a kind of joy like [...]
Tralfamadorians can, of course, see in four dimensions. They view time – all the moments that comprise all of eternity – as we might view the Rocky Mountains: for them time is solid and permanent, and the Tralfamadorians may enter whatever moment might interest them at any time. “It is just an illusion we have [...]
Over the past few weeks we’ve been having contributors to Fiction on a Stick, an anthology of stories by Minnesota writers, answer the 6 questions we always ask. Today we’re featuring Pallavi Dixit who earned a B.A. and an M.A in History from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, [...]
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