The Writer’s Handful with Terry H. Watkins
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to! Today we hear from Terry H. Watkins, whose brand new and affecting novel, Darling Girl, will celebrate its book birthday this week. Kirkus Reviews had lots of good things to say about this coming of age story, including this: “a powerful drama that impressively manages to both […]
The Writer’s Handful with Megan Alice
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to! Okay, so when I was seventeen I wrote poems (didn’t we all?) and hid them away in notebooks and folded sheets of paper stuffed under my socks in my dresser. Today, in the Writer’s Handful, I want to introduce to you the seventeen-year-old poet Megan […]
The Writer’s Handful with Sarah Ward
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to! Today’s Writer’s Handful is a conversation with Vermont writer, Sarah Ward, whose new book, Aesop Lake, was just released in paperback from Green Writers Press. This young adult novel is no light-hearted romp among the unicorns and fields of daisies, but instead tells a story […]
The Writer’s Handful With Justin O’Brien
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to Fifty years ago this summer, the Democratic National Convention came to Chicago. I was just a little girl in 1968, but I remember watching this on our black and white television: the boisterous goings-on inside the convention center, and the scary, dangerous goings-on outside in […]
The Writer’s Handful with Giano Cromley
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to. A couple of months ago, I met Giano Cromley at Hyde Park’s famous Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap. He was there for a reading, a double book launch party for him (What We Build Upon the Ruins) and Joseph G. Peterson (Gunmetal Blue.) I didn’t know him […]
The Writer’s Handful with Joseph G. Peterson
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to. I first stumbled upon Joseph G. Peterson’s work with the publication of his novel, Wanted: Elevator Man. Joseph’s line-up of books (a half-dozen so far) is diverse (including a novel in verse!) and impressive. His most recent book, just released by the very fine Tortoise […]
The Writer’s Handful with James Tadd Adcox
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to. Curbside Splendor is at it again–publishing cutting edge work by butt-kicking emerging writers. Does Not Love is the debut novel of JAMES TADD ADCOX, and folks are paying attention to it. Roxanne Gay says “…Adcox is a writer who knows how to make the reader believe the […]
The Writer’s Handful with Carrie Etter
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to. After a bit of hiatus, I am so very pleased to bring you The Writer’s Handful again. And I am even more pleased to have CARRIE ETTER, a remarkable poet and sudden prose writer, join us today. You must find Carrie’s work and read it immediately. […]
The Writer’s Handful with Patricia Skalka
Mondays + Writers = Finally something to look forward to. Putting together your summer reading list? Looking for a smart, tough mystery to add to it? Check out the fist in the Dave Cubiak Mystery Series, DEATH STALKS DOOR COUNTY, the debut novel by Chicago author PATRICIA SKALKA. Publishers Weekly calls this book “A tight, lyrical […]
The Writer’s Handful with Don McNair
Harrumph. Mondays. What’s to look forward to? Hey, how about a new series dedicated to brief conversations with writers of all genres, at all stages of their careers? Yes! How cool would that be? Very cool. So welcome to THE WRITER’S HANDFUL. In this new series, a writer will answer five questions anyway they want to. […]