Eugenia Lovett West was born in February 1923. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College amidst WWII and took jobs with Harper’s Bazaar...

Saturday Series | Amy Tan

Mission 1: All in a Day's Work, is the first book in my Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series. You'll find a narrated excerpt from my...

Part two in my Fanny Fern Tales series is based on her humorist columns published in the New York Ledger in the 1850s-70s. The articles,...

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are...

Today, we're going to start meeting the Bad Guys in the first book of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series | Mission 1: All in a...

This will be the first in a series of readings of Fanny Fern's columns which were published in The New York Ledger. Excerpt two will be...

I read Year of Wonders in 2020, right when Covid was in full swing. The book concerns how one English countryside village dealt with the...

Sean O'Donohue was Sophia’s grandmother, Elspeth MacGregor's soul mate and best friend. When Sophia came to live with Nana as an orphan...

As many of you may know, the U.S. Department of Justice is suing to block a merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. If...

Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) knew at age twenty that she would die from the same inherited polycystic kidney disease as her father did when...