Just Read It: BIRDS OF A LESSER PARADISE by Megan Mayhew Bergman

2012 at 5am     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Published March 6, 2012 by Scribner I’ve been raving about this book since November, and I’m so happy to be able to tell you that it is finally out in the world. Megan Mayhew Bergman’s debut collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise opens with “Housewifely Arts,” a piece about a young mother who takes her [...]

Quickie: UNORTHODOX by Deborah Feldman

2012 at 5am     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Published February 14, 2012 by Simon and Schuster Few things make me happy like a memoir by a woman who busted out of oppressive circumstances and left everything she knew behind in order to build a new life for herself. In Deborah Feldman’s case, the oppressive circumstances came courtesy of the Hasidic Jewish community in [...]

Just Read It: CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED by Pam Houston

2012 at 5am     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Published February 6, 2012 by W.W. Norton My love for Pam Houston runs deep. Really deep. Like, I got so gushy about her on the short story episode of the Bookrageous Podcast that I actually said, “Pam Houston is my weakness.” (In my defense, that’s a reference to her incredible collection Cowboys Are My Weakness, [...]

So, THE SNOW CHILD…

2012 at 5am     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Published February 1, 2012 by Reagan Arthur Books Oh, this book. I wanted to love it. I looked forward to it for months. The Willa-Cather-meets-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez blurb on the front of the galley got me all hot and bothered–I adore Cather’s way of making the landscape so present that it is virtually a character in the [...]

A Conversation About AMERICAN DERVISH by Ayad Akhtar

2012 at 5am     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Published January 9, 2012 by Little, Brown American Dervish is about Hayat Shah, a young Muslim boy growing up in the American midwest in the 1980s, trying to make sense of his faith and his identity. Hayat’s parents have raised him in Muslim culture but have not given him any religious training.  When his mother’s [...]

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