“For anyone who has been intrigued by this time period and these people from the Hamilton musical or from other books about that time period, biographies of Hamilton or Adams, this is a different take; a look from a feminine perspective and really a lot of fun.” Love, Theodosia, Goldstein’s historical fiction debut, tells of Read More

The Silence of Scheherazade, written by Turkish novelist Defne Suman, was first published in 2015 in Turkey and Greece. It made its English language debut in August of 2021. Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, the story is about four families whose lives intertwine during the decline of the Ottoman Empire, as told by Read More

“Beheld is very timely for this time of year because we’re coming right up on Thanksgiving… which in our, sort of, culture is a celebration of a myth of the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and that is the subject matter of this historical novel, Beheld.” The story centers around the death of Dorothy Bradford, first Read More

In the Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik writes about Dorathea Lange, the great American documentary photographer known for her Depression-era work and her iconic photograph, Migrant Mother. Her story begins with the arrival of Lange in San Francisco in 1918, where her passion for photography was just growing. “She came to San Francisco as a young woman Read More

The poetry in Ananda Lima’s “Mother/Land” delves into the intersection of motherhood and immigration, combining English and Portuguese for a deeply moving and lyrically beautiful experience. The Brazilian-born author plays with both the meaning and sounds of words in both languages, as well as with various poetic forms. The result is poetry that can be Read More

Galia Gichon joins Writers Voices for a lively discussion of her novel – The Accidental Suffragist “What has come up in so many of these conversations, like I did a podcast in Georgia, I did a podcast in Texas just really around the book … and they say “How’s this book relevant today?” – because Read More

Historical novelist Liza Nash Taylor talks about her latest work – All in Good Faith – and how she manages writing from two perspectives. ” It’s funny for me My writing process is – I’ll sit down and some days I feel like I can write dialog , I can write a scene in dialog. Read More

Laura Galloway and her memoir – Dalvi – Six years in the Arctic tundra. … “I made a trip to the Arctic and I absolutely loved it…. it was such a profound juxtaposition from the life that I was living in New York,…. ..During my travels to the Arctic … I met a reindeer herder Read More

Dolores Johnson tells us about suffering and joys of her bi-racial family in – Say, I’m Dead, a family memoir of race, secrets and love. “Say I’m dead is a multi generational story of my family; who endured fear, secrets and separation and finally transformation; because they were not bound by the forbidding race mixing Read More

Winner of the Iowa Short Story Fiction Award Blake Sanz’s short story collection -The Boundaries of Their Dwelling takes us into the place where all of us are immigrants. He talks with us about his work. “The title comes from a line in the Bible, from Act’s I believe, and the full line is “and Read More