Gretchen Lida is an essayist and an equestrian. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Brevity, The Rumpus, The Washington Independent Review of Books, and many others. She teaches composition in Illinois, lives in Wisconsin, sometimes lives on Nantucket Island and is still a Colorado Native.
A reader looks back at Isabel Allende's DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE, which turned 20 this year, and finds its story evergreen and radical.
Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry coming out next year for your TBR.
A reader investigates the audiobooks her friend, an artist, listens to as she paints, and why the themes in each story speak to her.
Recent novels on the complicated history of lighthouses and the keeprs inside.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new book came out on October 16, at the height of the election madness. Right at that lull ...
Bodices, bustles, drama, and sweeping, sweeping emotion!
A reader shares opinions on the celebrity memoir and biography genre, and the experience of reading ROBIN, a bio of Robin Williams' life.
A composition teacher on why she assigned her students a podcast about walking across America.
From Anne’s Prince Edward Island and Ishmael’s Nantucket to The Island of the Blue Dolphins, islands have always been a ...
A Colorado native on searching for the familiar, rough beauty of her home state, and for strong women in books about the West.