CarolineLeavittville

  Listen up because this gorgeous, luminous, tear-your-heart-out and patch-it-together book is a love letter to the author’s brave transgender daughter. Please buy copies for friends, bu...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-brave-book-of-love-and-understanding.html

Stephen Policoff's Dangerous Blues has been called "kind of a ghost story." It's about love and death and one man and his twelve-year-old daughter being haunted by the loss of the woman t...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/11/stephen-policoff-talks-about-dangerous.html

Adventures in Veganland! Yep, yep. I am mostly vegan. I have been a vegetarian since I was in my twenties—and for a simple reason. My first husband was a vegetarian and he did all the...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/10/high-protein-vegan-chocolate-anyone.html

Abandoned by her mother, living with her poet father on an island with no cars, and molested at six, Hannah Sward grew up to be a stripper and a prostitute with a taste for drugs. How she got fro...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/09/living-on-carless-island-with-her-poet.html

  Ellen Meister is one of the warmest, funniest, most generous writers around. I am so, so lucky to know her. She's the author of The Rooftop Party; Love Sold Separately; Dorothy Par...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/08/ellen-meister-talks-about-take-my.html

  Who doesn't know of and adore Zibby Owens? She is an author, podcaster, publisher, CEO, and mother of four. And a force of nature. And a great friend and supporter of anyone who writ...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/07/beloved-book-influencer-author.html

  I’m thrilled to host Edie Meidav .com on the blog today for her astonishing new book ANOTHER LOVE DISCOURSE. I’m thrilled to host Edie Meidav on the blog today for her astonishin...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/06/edie-meidav-talks-about-grief-empathy.html

  All writers adore Poets & Writers and The Millions, which means they also love Michael Bourne, a CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AT POETS & WRITERS AND A STAFF WRITER FOR THE ONLINE LITERARY SIT...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/06/poets-writers-contributing-editor5.html

  What books matter the most to us, and why do we turn to them time after time? I've long admired Robin Black , both as a person, a literary citizen, and an acclaimed writer, and I was thr...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/04/robin-black-talks-about-mrs-dalloway.html

30 Books we Can't Wait to read in 2022-- Parade READ WITH JENNA'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 "A FINE JOB DESCRIBING NEIGHBORHOOD TENSIONS AND THE CITY'S SCENE." - PUBLISHERS' WEEKL...

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No one writes a funnier bio than Gina herself, So here it is:  Gina Barreca has appeared, often as a repeat guest, on 20/20, The Today Show, CNN, the BBC, NPR and, yes, on Oprah to ...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/03/women-are-rewriting-their-own-story.html

LESLIE KIRK CAMPBELL IS THE AUTHOR OF JOURNEY INTO MOTHERHOOD: WRITING YOUR WAY INTO SELF-DISCOVERY. HER LATEST STUNNING COLLECTION OF STORIES, THE MAN WITH EIGHT PAIRS OF LEGS, HAS JUST ...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/03/leslie-kirk-campbell-winner-of-mary.html

I'm fascinated by what people believe and why they believe it. A friend of mine told me about renowned former New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal, who had co-authored a series of articles o...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/03/alien-encounters-hard-science-and.html

  A modern couple tests the complicated boundaries of their relationship in Jonathan Papernick's astounding new novel, I am My Beloveds. Jonathan is not only a longtime pal, he's also t...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/02/jonathan-papernick-perfect-last-name.html

When Ron Block, one of the literary world's guardian angels, AND the podcast host for Friends and Fiction AND the chief honcho for the wonderful Cuyahoga County Public Library  tells me tha...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/01/in-kimmery-martins-eerily-prescient-new.html

Note the sublime photo above, of Audrey Munson. the first supermodel who was named "Miss Manhattan." The perfect icon for a blog about Fiona! I adore Fiona Davis. Not just her books...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2022/01/fiona-davis-talks-about-magnolia-palace.html

  I am so thrilled to Host Clea Simon my blog! Yep, I blurbed her new novel, HOLD ME DOWN, because it is so incendiary, so thrilling, so important, too. And I'm honored to have her ...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2021/11/clea-simon-talks-about-rock-and-roll.html

LARRY BAKER IS THE AUTHOR OF FROM A DISTANCE, THE FLAMINGO RISING, THE EDUCATION OF NANCY ADAMS, LOVE AND OTHER DELUSIONS, A  GOOD MAN, AND HIS LATEST, MOST WONDERFUL NOVEL WYMAN AND THE FLORIDA...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2021/10/larry-baker-talks-about-wyman-florida.html

I met and befriended Cai the way I do almost every new friend: a book comes in the mail and I love it so much, I have to know the author! In Cai's case that was Weather Woman, followed by...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2021/08/cai-emmons-talks-about-sinking-islands.html

WHAT'S MORE EXCITING THAN DISCOVERING NEW WRITING TALENT? ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS FROM A TEENAGER? I'VE HOSTED YOUNG PEOPLE HERE BEFORE (WE HAVE A TEN-YEAR-OLD IN OUR FAMILY WHO ALREADY HAS WRITTEN...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2021/07/portrait-of-prolific-seventeen-year-old.html

     It's no secret how much I love nurses and female doctors, both of whom saved my life when I was sick. So, of course, when Suzanne Koven's book LETTER TO A YOUNG FEMALE PHYS...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2021/06/suzanne-koven-talks-about-imposter.html

    I had written a piece for Psychology Today on how grief is not what you think it is, that the "rules" people dole out are not helpful at all and we should all grieve in our ow...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-to-live-gracefully-with-end-in-mind.html

               First the praise:  "Little Matches is gripping and true in all ways, and I am so glad to have spent time in the company of Maryanne and Caitlin. This ...

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“A " A skillfully written story of hope, love, and regret” (Library Journal) “ mind-rattling debut mystery… Page after page, Farrell builds confusion and frustration into an incendia...

http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2021/04/i-recommend-falling-woman-coming-in.html

   First take a look at these knockout blurbs! SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL … PRECISELY IMAGINED, POETICALLY STRUCTURED, COMPELLING, AND VIVID. —JOYCE CAROL OATES I LOVE THIS BOOK AND AM G...

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