On August 28, 1938, Reed Peggram boarded a ship from Hoboken, New Jersey, hoping to “become a proper gentleman” and fulfill his dreams. A prolific writer and Harvard scholar of comparative literature, he’d recently been awarded the Rosenwald Fellowship, which...

Born to parents who both had musical careers before they wed, David Archuleta remembers an early childhood, growing up in a Hispanic Mormon community in Florida, where kin were always nearby. He was six when his parents moved the immediate family to Utah; the...

Randy Boyd’s The Unfrozen Few: Book One: Welcome to the Future is a bold and imaginative work of speculative fiction that combines a gripping premise with emotional depth. The story follows eleven AIDS patients from the 1980s who, after being frozen in a...

Greg Herren’s latest Scotty Bradley mystery, Hurricane Season Hustle, is a stormy, suspenseful ride that pulls you into the heart of New Orleans during one of its most chaotic and dangerous times. Herren, a master of blending humor, intrigue, and the unique...

Seventeen months into a nationwide book tour, Nico Lang has grown used to living out of a suitcase. The Los Angeles–based journalist and author has spent more than a year crisscrossing the country, talking about their book American Teenager, a deeply reported...

Is there truly a force stronger than capitalism? This is one of the central questions author Jade Song explores in their new sophomore novel, I Love You Don’t Die. Set in the hustle and bustle of New York City, the plot follows Vicky, a young woman drawn to...

Frank Gaimari doesn’t just tell stories, he brings them to life. At 64, this Seattle-based writer and storyteller has turned a lifetime of experiences into narratives that entertain, inspire, and connect with people on a real, personal level. After a 36-year...

Zakery Leigh’s latest novel, Echoes from the Isle of Skye, is a gothic romance that grips you from the very beginning. Leigh’s writing sweeps you straight into the mist-shrouded hills and dramatic cliffs of the Scottish Highlands, making the hauntingly...

Harry Tanner says that, when he was a teenager, he thought he “was going to hell.” For years, he’d been attracted to men, and he prayed that it would stop. He asked for help from a lay minister, who offered Tanner websites meant to repress his urges, but they...

Long before Sophie Lucido Johnson was an award-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker, back before she could ever even imagine herself as a published writer, she was a teacher in the New Orleans public school system, where her love of drawing seemed like more...