Okay, I’ll stop with these two happy Kipling photos and carry on with my recommendation 😉 I searched for the anthology The Best American Short Stories 2011, a series that comes out each Fall with a different guest Editor. This year, Series Editor, Heidi Pitlor, chose Geraldine Brooks, who was born in Australia, grew up in…
Lobo regarded me, and I him. I gathered him into my arms and clutched him to my chest, instinctively cradling him. It was then that I experienced the only episode of love at first sight I’ve had in my life. — an excerpt from An Angel With Fur by Russell Blake Russell Blake had a brilliant…
Here is a new list of five authors to discover, and two to grow on! The evening mist is back over the pond. The air is colder. Fall into Winter waterborne storms are brewing off the Pacific Northwest coastline, and these maelstroms usually hit us hard in November and December. It’s way past time to…
Beryl holds an ice cube in her hand as she sits in her closet. This is the first line of Audrey Schulman’s 1994 novel The Cage. Her main character is trying to imagine what it will be like to sit in thirty and forty below temperatures in the Arctic; she’s preparing herself as best she…