dear reader April 2026 I've been reading voraciously, and editing a bit more slowly (but making progress!). This past month, Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust trilogy kept me busy for hundreds of pages, and, honestly, hit a little too close to reality to be the escapist retreat I needed. I did find distraction in Alison Espach's The Wedding People and Da Ngan's An Insignificant Family. But I want to talk some books I'm going to read next, because I'm that shameful author friend who is just...

dear reader March 2026 Last month, I found myself traveling. The grass across four states was still yellow and crumbly. I drove through the aftermath of the large winter storm and saw the carnage of tree limbs snapped by the cold. I can remember the sound of the cracking from a different storm in 2022 and still hear the booms in the gloom. Yet there were early spring blossoms even though another front bringing freezing temperatures was on the way. I read all three books that make up Phillip...

Doing Just Fine January 2026 Dear Reader, When I wrote you two months ago, I had tall reading goals and read I did! This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherrîe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa Bitch by Lucy Cooke How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi In addition to these pictured, I read The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer, Gliff by Ali Smith, Palestine by Nur Masalha, Illegality, Inc. by Ruben Andersson, Race and Reunion by David W. Blight, and Euphoria by Lily King — to name a few. Outside of...