Dear Reader
March 25, 2025
The Heist of a Generation
March 4, 2025
Is It Possible to Love Two People at Once?
February 4, 2025
Writing Women Out of the Footnotes
January 8, 2025
A Novel is Like a Tapestry
December 9, 2024
An Exercise in Empathy
November 25, 2024
A Love Story Between an Artist and Her Art
October 28, 2024
Telling a Story to Keep it Alive
September 30, 2024
How Far Would You Go To Belong?
September 16, 2024
Writing Stories of Resilience
September 2, 2024
Learning to Love the World, One Crow At a Time
August 30, 2024
The Time Loop of Chronic Pain
August 29, 2024
A Front Row Seat to Personal Transformation in ‘Group’
August 29, 2024
How Tembi Locke Found Home In ‘From Scratch’
July 2, 2024
Would You Be Okay Having a Cemetery in Your Backyard?
July 2, 2024
Writing Unabashed Power Ballads
June 4, 2024
People Watching Leads to Inspiration
May 28, 2024
Writing The Unlikeable Female Narrator
May 1, 2024
Writing Stories That Make You Feel Less Alone
April 2, 2024
Falling In Love With The Sorensons
March 5, 2024
For The Lost Women in Art History
February 6, 2024
Fossilizing My Family History
January 2, 2024
What If I Made the Main Character Morally Gray?
December 5, 2023
The Teenage Friendships Behind Before We Were Innocent
November 1, 2023
The Pandemic Was My Groundhog Day
October 3, 2023
A Book Dedicated to Staying
September 5, 2023
Writing About Murder Was Our Escape
August 1, 2023
Embracing Optimism and Hope
June 6, 2023
The Search for Love is Universal
May 26, 2023
The Masks Each Character Wears
May 2, 2023
To the Women Who Came Before Me
April 4, 2023
Never Judge a Love Story By Its Cover
April 1, 2023
The Road to Love
March 30, 2023
When We See Injustice, We Must Fight It
March 7, 2023
More Than Just a Footnote
February 22, 2023
A New Way to Find Out First
February 7, 2023
Ruffling the Imagination
January 21, 2023
The Evolution of a Villain
January 3, 2023
The Universal Longing to Return
December 5, 2022
The Wife From The Poem
November 1, 2022
Dear Sugar Has Always Been About Connecting
October 1, 2022
Can We Actually Make a Difference?
September 6, 2022
The Electricity of a Dream on the Verge of Being Realized
August 2, 2022
Do I Want Children?
July 22, 2022
Be True to Yourself and Know Others Will See You
July 5, 2022
The Complexities of Romance
June 7, 2022
The Unlikeliest of Criminals Thwarting the System
May 3, 2022
Could Words Mean Different Things to Men and Women?
April 28, 2022
The Future of the Deaf Community Belongs to You
April 5, 2022
A Piece of Home
March 1, 2022
The Jekyll and Hyde Aspect of Fame
February 1, 2022
Disappearing Women
January 18, 2022
Watch the Blood—It Might Stain
January 11, 2022
How Could Any Novel Fully Represent a Country?
January 4, 2022
Reclaiming Honor
December 7, 2021
On Luck and Bravery
November 19, 2021
How the Legacy of Trauma Can Pass Down Generations
November 11, 2021
Everyone Needs Hope At Some Point
November 1, 2021
I Am Fascinated By Trees—And Their Roots
October 19, 2021
Why Isn’t This House Haunted?
October 5, 2021
There is No Future Without Reckoning With the Past
September 7, 2021
Sisterhood is Not a Right, But a Privilege
August 3, 2021
Why I’m Glad I Got Pickpocketed in Budapest
July 20, 2021
Step Into the Light
July 6, 2021
The Notion of Choice
June 1, 2021
Do Soulmates Have an Expiration Date?
May 18, 2021
Stuck Between Worlds
May 4, 2021
Can We Ever Know the People We Love Most?
April 20, 2021
Working Mothers Have Always Led Double Lives
April 12, 2021
The Buddhists Were Right
April 6, 2021
A Backdrop of Changing Threat Levels
April 1, 2021
Love Means Honoring Your Spirit and Mine
March 16, 2021
Reclaiming Your Identity
March 2, 2021
Love Is the Greatest Motivator in This World
February 18, 2021
The Journey Back to Confidence
February 2, 2021
The Perfect Backdrop for a Chilling Thriller
January 12, 2021
A Love Letter to Sisterhood
January 5, 2021
Adventure to the Old West in “Outlawed”
December 15, 2020
The Knock on the Door
December 1, 2020
Wherever You Go, There You Are
November 10, 2020
The Seed of the Story
October 20, 2020
Beneath the Sea and Between the Lines of ‘Fable’
October 1, 2020
Writing Afi in ‘His Only Wife’
September 15, 2020
When There’s No Alternative, Make One
September 1, 2020
The Revolutionary Act of Reaching Out
August 17, 2020
Leah Johnson on Writing Characters for Girls Like Her
August 1, 2020
Love, Our Only True Adventure
July 7, 2020
Peer into the Daily Indignities of Racism in “I’m Still Here”
June 10, 2020
Wild and Perfect: Playing with Contrasts in ‘The Guest List’
April 1, 2020
Glennon Doyle Asks Us to “Feel it All” in ‘Untamed’
April 1, 2020
Reese Chats with Alka Joshi on Why She Picked The Henna Artist
March 3, 2020
Who Inspired Amanda Eyre Ward to Write ‘The Jetsetters’
February 1, 2020
What Inspired Erica Bauermeister To Write ‘The Scent Keeper’
January 1, 2020
What Inspired Kiley Reid To Write ‘Such A Fun Age’
December 2, 2019
Denise Mina Shares The Inspiration Behind ‘Conviction’
November 1, 2019
Jojo Moyes Shares What Inspired Her To Write ‘The Giver of Stars’
September 5, 2019
How ‘The Secrets We Kept’ Came To Life
August 5, 2019
How A Family Trip To Maine Changed The Focus Of ‘The Last House Guest’
July 1, 2019
Chandler Baker On What Inspired Her To Write ‘Whisper Network’
June 1, 2019
How Sarah Haywood’s Journey To Motherhood Inspired ‘The Cactus’
April 9, 2019
What Inspired Catherine Steadman To Write ‘Something In The Water’
April 5, 2019
What Inspired Yangsze Choo To Write ‘The Night Tiger’
March 8, 2019
I Asked A Stranger About Emotional Labor—Here’s What He Said
March 5, 2019
How Fleetwood Mac Influenced ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’
February 1, 2019
The Inspiration Behind Nik’s Friends In ‘The Proposal’
January 7, 2019
Susan Orlean On Why She Wrote ‘The Library Book’
December 17, 2018
Love Triangles That Inspired ‘One Day In December’
October 12, 2018
Why My Novel About A Transgender Kid Isn’t A Memoir About Mine
September 12, 2018
On Going Way Out Yonder Where the Crawdads Sing
August 7, 2018
How The Intimidating Art World Became The Setting For ‘Still Lives’
July 24, 2018
Writing ‘Next Year In Havana’ Helped Me Uncover My Family’s Mystery
May 1, 2018
What It’s Like To Care For The Most Fragile Lives
