Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter is a raw and visceral novel that explores primal desires, shocking secrets and the effects they have on those that uncover them. Hunter is joined by her publisher, Roxane Gay, a prolific author in her own right including her new collection, Opinions. The two join us to discuss collaboration […]
Two writers capture the legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder in works of memoir and fiction.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography tells the true story behind the Little House books—the young couple cut from The Long Winter because Wilder thought premarital pregnancy was inappropriate for children, the frontier kissing games, the Ingalls family’s shameful retreat east to run a hotel in Iowa. This is the real frontier, neither softened for young readers nor edited to endorse the […]
True story: When I was a child, I wanted desperately to live on the banks of Plum Creek*. I’m not the only American kid who wanted the Little House life; Roxane Gay felt similarly, she told me in a recent interview for The B&N Podcast. We all raced to read Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh […]