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Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

Every Complicated Family is Complicated in Its Own Way: A Reading List

Jeremy B. Jones Recommends Rick Bragg, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Crystal Wilkinson and More

By Jeremy B. Jones | September 17, 2025

The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir

The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir

The Author of "In the Rhododendrons" Reflects on Illness, Virginia Woolf, and a Fairytale Deal

By Heather Christle | April 15, 2025

23 new books in paperback out this October!

23 new books in paperback out this October!

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 29, 2023

Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

can’t know—whether the bricks you’ve laid on top will be supported by the bricks at the bottom.”">“You don’t know—you can’t know—whether the bricks you’ve laid on top will be supported by the bricks at the bottom.”

By Dani Shapiro | April 7, 2023

Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

Dani Shapiro on Revisiting Her Book on Craft a Decade On

By Dani Shapiro | March 13, 2023

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Jean Hanff Korelitz, and Dani Shapiro on the Secrets in Our Pasts That Can Break Us Apart

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Jean Hanff Korelitz, and Dani Shapiro on the Secrets in Our Pasts That Can Break Us Apart

Live from the 2022 Miami Book Fair

By The Virtual Book Channel | November 22, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Signal Fires">Dani Shapiro on the Fifteen Year Journey of Signal Fires

By The Literary Life | November 4, 2022

How Writing Fiction Can Expose More of Yourself Than Writing Memoir

By Just the Right Book | November 3, 2022

13 new books to cling to this week.

By Katie Yee | October 18, 2022

L-O-V-E: A Reading List For Lovers, Love-Seekers and the Loved

L-O-V-E: A Reading List For Lovers, Love-Seekers and the Loved

Zibby Owens Recommends Leslie Gray Streeter, Brit Bennett And More

By Zibby Owens | July 22, 2022

to Life, Too"> Lauren Martin on Realizing Writing Advice Applies<br

Lauren Martin on Realizing Writing Advice Applies<br

to Life, Too">Lauren Martin on Realizing Writing Advice Applies
to Life, Too

"Writing a book, I quickly found out, was a crash course in anxiety."

By Lauren Martin | December 7, 2020

The End of Secrets: Family History in the Age of Bio Ethics

The End of Secrets: Family History in the Age of Bio Ethics

Beyond the Page: The Best of the
Sun Valley Writers' Conference">Dani Shapiro at Beyond the Page: The Best of the
Sun Valley Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | April 23, 2020

And the winners of the 69th National Jewish Book Awards are. . .

And the winners of the 69th National Jewish Book Awards are. . .

By Aaron Robertson | January 15, 2020

Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

But That's Another Story">In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | July 30, 2019

Inheritance to be adapted into a film"> Dani Shapiro's bestselling memoir <em

Dani Shapiro's bestselling memoir <em

Inheritance to be adapted into a film">

Inheritance to be adapted into a film">Dani Shapiro's bestselling memoir Inheritance to be adapted into a film

By Emily Temple | July 3, 2019

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family's History

Inheritance in Conversation with Michele Filgate ">The Author of Inheritance in Conversation with Michele Filgate

By Michele Filgate | May 16, 2019

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