upmarket – Book Club Babble

Inspired by the true story of Patricia McCormick, The Moment of Truth tells the tale of the first American woman to professionally bullfight. Set in the early 1950s, it follows Kathleen Boyd as she drops out of... Read More...

We Were the Lucky Ones, An Interview with Georgia Hunter

Elise Schiller

Interviews

Georgia Hunter has written an epic novel, We Were the Lucky Ones, based on a true family story. Before World War II, her great-grandparents, Nechuma and Sol, owned a thriving business and with their five childr... Read More...

Books We Love: Our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Kristin Jacobson

Literary Lagniappe, on Books

Do you have a book lover on your holiday shopping list? Here are a few recommendations from our very talented literary critics that are sure to please even the most discerning reader. Tabitha Lord ... Read More...

Allison Winn Scotch, Author of In Twenty Years

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch’s latest novel is the perfect beach read. On the eve of graduation, six Penn students write down their dreams for the following two decades, confident they ... Read More...

Interview with Karan Bajaj, Author of The Yoga of Max’s Discontent

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

The Yoga of Max’s Discontent by Karan Bajaj tells the story of Max Pzoras, a Wall Street analyst who, in the wake of his mother’s death, struggles with a lack of meaning in his life. Max quits his high-paying j... Read More...

Interview with Emily Liebert, Author of Some Women

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Emily Liebert’s novel Some Women is an emotional page-turner filled with complicated relationships—male and female, parents and children—and laugh out loud moments. It’s the perfect book to devour on spring bre... Read More...

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Not That I Could Tell- An Interview With Jessica Strawser

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

The Flicker of Old Dreams – An Interview with Susan Henderson

Is Love in the Stars? Find out in Darcy Woods’ Debut YA, Summer of Supernovas

The Author’s Cut, Live with Jennifer Kitses

Unearthing The Lion Trees' Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

All the Ever Afters: A Powerful Rendition of the Stepmother’s Side of the Cinderella Story

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

How to Create a Successful Culture

The Big Sheep: A delightfully humorous dystopian novel

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Paper Towns

Up for a Russia Spy Thriller Not on the Nightly News? Try Red Sparrow

Does the movie version of The Glass Castle hold up?

Is Everything, Everything Worth Watching?

Looking for an Adult Adventure Movie? Try The Lost City of Z

Lauren Oliver’s YA hit, Before I Fall, Hits the Silver Screen. Is it Worth Watching?

Fences: From Playwright to Screenplay

Why Read? My Top Eight Reasons

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World by Mitch Prinstein

Best Books of 2017

A Woman Breaks Into Bullfighting, An Interview with Damian McNicholl

We Were the Lucky Ones, An Interview with Georgia Hunter

Books We Love: Our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Allison Winn Scotch, Author of In Twenty Years

Interview with Karan Bajaj, Author of The Yoga of Max’s Discontent

Interview with Emily Liebert, Author of Some Women

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Not That I Could Tell- An Interview With Jessica Strawser

All the Ever Afters: A Powerful Rendition of the Stepmother’s Side of the Cinderella Story

“Oh No They Didn’t”: Amerilexicophobia

Looking At What is to be Seen: A Review of Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others

Two Families, One Secret: An Interview With Lynda Cohen Loigman

Unearthing The Lion Trees’ Roots, an interview with Owen Thomas

Come Aboard the Starship Horizon: An Interview with Tabitha Lord

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