A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
by Joanna Biggs
“Even if a book is about everything else, it is never not about the life the writer lived.” Memoir meets biography meets literary criticism in this heartfelt bibliomemoir (and yes, I was delighted to... (Anika)
Fonseca
by Jessica Francis Kane
The public drama of Penelope Fitzgerald's life came late, as she burst into literary fame in her sixties after years of poverty and quiet desperation. She mined those private years for much of her fic... (Tom)
Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine
by Stanley Crawford
I remain intrigued that the same person wrote the plain-spoken farmer's memoir, A Garlic Testament, that was our January Phinney by Post pick this year and this brilliant piece of weirdo fiction, but... (Tom)
Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel
by Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting is one of my top ten favorite books of all time, so it's hardly surprising that this beautiful illustrated adaptation will be one of my top ten reads of the year. The original tells t... (Anika)