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Ben Shepherd recently asked authors and super readers for their 3 favorite reads in 2023 and I got to be one of them. Read about

Nancy A. Bekofske started blogging in 2008, writing about the books she read and the quilts she was working on. Over the years she’s added

David Gutowski (aka the Large Hearted Boy) is a music-loving man who lives in Brooklyn, though his heart is deep in the American South. His

Gracias to Theresa Bourke of the Brainerd Dispatch for this thoughtful review of Those People Behind Us. Bourke said this: “Camarillo’s characters are so real

  The New York Times recently listed ten books that help “explain California.” Although Susan Straight’s excellent novel Mecca was included (and also included in Part One of

When “Those People Behind Us” received an 8.5 out of 10 score from the folks at the BookLife Prize, I admit I wasn’t particularly pleased.

  Women Writers, Women’s Books is an online literary magazine by and about contemporary women writers from around the world. Barbara Bos, Managing Editor, launched

My great realization when my dad was transferred from Charlotte, North Carolina to Santa Monica back in 1966 was that, despite all those Beach Boy

I was fourteen in 1966 when my father came home from his job at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Charlotte, North Carolina and announced that

I’ve been lucky to spend some time up at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, writing, editing, reading and recharging. I’m overdue for another residency but in

The Los Angeles Times published author/teacher/book fence curator Susan Straight’s “1001 Novels To Find America” project on May 29, 2023 and it is incredible. Each

Midwesterners have a reputation for being “nice” and there does seem to be a certain Midwestern sensibility. I’m working with a public relations firm based