Columnists
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August 18, 2020(Cook)Book Therapy: County Heirlooms and Pandemic Cooking
By Stacey May Fowles“We hope you’ll try making some of these recipes, and we encourage you to find ways to make them your own. And we also hope this book inspires you, wherever you live, to find personal ways to connect ...
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July 14, 2020Book Therapy: Still Here, and the Soothing Lure of Thrillers
By Stacey May Fowles“No. This is not where I die, Clare thinks. I am not still here, still alive, only to die now."—Amy Stuart, Still Here I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how when I was in my late twenties ...
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May 19, 2020Book Therapy: Lean Out by Tara Henley
By Stacey May Fowles(T)he notion—singular, unquestioned—that the only way to succeed in any industry, and especially mine, was to give it everything you had.”—Tara Henley, Lean Out By 2016, successful journalist ...
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April 07, 2020Book Therapy: Cordelia Strube’s Misconduct of the Heart
By Stacey May Fowles“I so wanted things to be normal.”“They can’t be normal. Make a new normal.”—Cordelia Strube, Misconduct of the HeartFrom the moment we went into isolation, people were making jokes. I don’t ...
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March 05, 2020Book Therapy: Shani Mootoo’s Polar Vortex
By Stacey May Fowles“The body is always in the moment. It doesn’t care if it was warmer or colder any other time. It’s concerned—a matter of survival, naturally—only with how it is in the present.”—Shani Mootoo, ...
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February 07, 2020Book Therapy: The Wisdom of Children(’s Books)
By Stacey May Fowles“I’ll be okay…I’ll be okay…”—Akiko Miyakoshi, The Piano RecitalIt’s probably not surprising that, after eighteen months of extended maternity leave, I’ve found the return to full time ...
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January 07, 2020Book Therapy: Teva Harrison’s Not One of These Poems Is About You
By Stacey May Fowles“I am careless in my griefSlip on gravel, send it tumbling down the cliff face.I am careful in my grief.Keep the precious rocks safeAs I climb.”—Teva Harrison, A Pocket Full of Stones There are ...
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December 12, 2019Book Therapy: Christy Ann Conlin’s Watermark
By Stacey May Fowles“It can always be worse.”-Christy Ann Conlin, Watermark When my grandmother’s memory started to go, she would occasionally become belligerent. The sweet woman I had grown up knowing, the one ...
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November 07, 2019Book Therapy: Jessica Westhead’s Worry
By Stacey May Fowles"Her brain and her body were still so wobbly then. Nothing about her was behaving the way it was supposed to. The birth had been a traumatic one, and she thought she would never heal.” - Jessica Westhead, ...
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December 08, 2017Books of the Year
By Stacey May FowlesThe end of the year is predictably a time for reviewing, taking stock, and of course, lots and lots of best of lists. In the world of books, there are some pretty obvious picks—award winners, best sellers, ...