We are happy to announce our nonfiction shortlist for the 2018 Reading Women Award! The winners of both the fiction and nonfiction categories will be announced December 5th. You can find more info about the Reading Women Award here.
Read moreQ&A | Nicole Chung
In All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung shares her experience as a transracial adoptee, pulling back the curtain on the realities and struggles of being a person of color adopted by white parents. From the first page, her memoir captures your heart and mind, asking you to examine your own preconceived notions about adoption. We are honored that Nicole graciously agreed to chat with us about her thought processes of writing and sharing her story.
Read moreInterview | Natalia Sylvester
We talk with Natalia Sylvester, author of the Everyone Knows You Go, which is out now from Little A!
Read moreEp. 55 | Reading Women Award | Fiction Shortlist
We are happy to announce our fiction shortlist for the 2018 Reading Women Award!
Read moreInterview | Ingrid Rojas Contreras
We talk with Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of the Fruit of the Drunken Tree, which is out now from Doubleday!
Read moreInterview | Crystal Hana Kim
We chat with Crystal Hana Kim about her debut novel If You Leave Me, out now from William Morrow!
Read moreInterview | Anjali Sachdeva
Autumn and Kendra chat with Anjali Sachdeva about her debut short story collection All the Names They Used for God.
Read moreInterview | Maggie O'Farrell
Autumn and Kendra chat with Maggie O'Farrell about her first work of nonfiction, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. O'Farrell talks about why she wanted to write a memoir after seven novels and about her own relationship with mortality, which inspired her to share the stories her seventeen brushes with death.
Read moreQ&A | Thi Bui
Thi Bui's graphic memoir The Best We Could Do still leaves us speechless. The beauty of her art and precision of her language create story that feels perfectly balanced. Bui's understanding of how stories are told comes through on every page, in every frame. In addition to being one of our shortlisted authors for the Reading Women Award in nonfiction, Thi Bui is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography. Bui told us about her writing process and the importance of reading stories from refugees.
Read moreQ&A | Michelle Kuo
One of the great surprises for us in 2017 was discovering Michelle Kuo. Kuo writes about her experience teaching high school English in the Mississippi delta with such clarity and insight. Her memoir Reading with Patrick taught us so much about humanity, the kindness and grace that can be found in all corners of the globe. But you don't have to take our word for it. Here's our conversation with Michelle Kuo, one of our Reading Women Award shortlisted authors.
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