Rove through Georgia farms and country doctor's offices with peacocks and misfits and tough as nails Southern ladies in Brad Gooch's biography ”Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor." We explore drawing characters and places and patterns from life, transmuting memories into stories, turning the...

A deep and stumbling dive into Kurt Vonnegut’s and Suzanne McConnell's 2019 co-biography, co-autobiography, and co-craft book, “Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style.” Scratching the surface of Vonnegut’s writing experience, teaching, and philosophy through finding what you want (really want) to...

Revel in Amy Gary’s 2016 book, “In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown.” We dive into how the author of classics like “Goodnight Moon,” “The Noisy Book,” and “The Runaway Bunny” captured the power of patterns, brought research to children’s literature, and...