The starting point for Jake is a spoon he came across at a small shop in the town of Woodstock. — Deborah Batterman’s novel JUST LIKE FEBRUARY published April 10!
“I don’t know how much longer I can live at home. Mama is working twice as hard since Jerry was laid off from his job at the newspaper.” – J.L. Regen shares an excerpt of her novel Secret Desires.
Literary events throughout March include a Time’s Up Panel hosted by the WNBA, an autobiographical play about growing up in a library, and a panel about how feminists changed New York.
Books are pretty. Plenty of people like to look at them. Fortunately, there’s a platform for that: Instagram. Whether you’re getting started or sprucing up your page, here are some tips!
Make some time to curl up with a new book as February comes to a close: Lisa Halliday’s novel Asymmetry is a gorgeous quick read that will keep you thinking for days.
When the Ladies Who Brunch discussed Salt Houses and A Long Time Gone, generational struggles and social pressure on women were two of the topics the groups focused on.
In this edition of Bookmark This! we revisit Valentine’s Day with libraries you’ll love, woke ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day, and the reemergence of the rom-com as a new type of story.