Newsletter #351

Bedford's few novels rarely stray far from the facts of her own history, but with a family like hers, you can understand why. She was raised in the fertile (for a novelist) ground of a family with mor... (Tom)

Jane Wong grew up in her family's Chinese restaurant in New Jersey (until her father's gambling obsession drove it into failure); now she's a poet and professor at Western Washington in Bellingham. Bu... (Tom)

First published in 1981, Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse! was recently re-released for a new generation by the New York Review Children's Collection. The animals flock to architect Ms. Mouse because she... (Haley)

The postcard arrived, unexplained and unsigned, in 2003, listing just four names: those of Berest's great-grandparents and their two children, who were all murdered in Auschwitz over sixty years befor... (Tom)