Constance Squires, author of Along the Watchtower, writes in The New York Times about weathering a tornado in an Oklahoma basement

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Sue Halpern's A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home in USA Today!

"This book delves far deeper into human nature than that old theme of "we all love our dogs, don't we?"… Halpern does love her dog, of course, but her book is more about humanity and how wonderful, fulfilling and even surprising experiences can be had in the most unlikely of places. Like a nursing home.And as is often the way, the dog once again makes the human a better person." To read more...

Jeanne Darst's interesting approach to learning Chinese

"When my five-year-old son said he wanted to learn Chinese, I should have said, 'How bout you learn English first?' Instead, I took him to China.” Read more about author of Fiction Ruined My Family Jeanne Darst’s trip to Beijing in this month’s Vogue.

Catherine Chung, author of FORGOTTEN COUNTRY, writes about race and the American Dream at The Rumpus

"If we tell ourselves we have no relationship to racism, that we don’t participate and aren’t complicit in perpetuating racial inequality in a hundred different ways each day, we’re kidding ourselves. Myself included." To read the essay, click here.

Rosie Schaap, author of the “sharply written" memoir Drinking With Men, talks to Vulture about her thirteen favorite movie bar scenes

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Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with Men, writes for Oprah.com about the 10 things she wishes she’d told her father

“The author of the wise and wholly original memoir Drinking with Men looks back on life with her dad, who unexpectedly passed away in 2001.” To read the piece, click here.

Rosie Schaap talks to NPR about her memoir, Drinking With Men

"Everyone wants to go to a bar with Rosie Schaap. And not just because she can shake up a mean cocktail... but because a bar is the ideal setting for her insightful and endlessly funny stories." To listen to the full interview, click here.

Julie Klam, author of Friendkeeping, writes for the Wall Street Journal Speakeasy blog about how to keep real friends in the age of social media

"For a friendship to work," Klam writes, "you have to have facetime (and not the kind that comes on your iPhone, either)." To read the piece, click here.

Anne Lamott is interviewed about her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, on NPR’s Morning Edition

Anne Lamott speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne about asking for guidance, offering gratitude and expressing wonder. To listen to the interview or read the highlights, click here!

Jon Ronson talks to The Millions about his new book, Lost at Sea

“[T]he biggest theme [in Lost at Sea], for me anyway, is how everybody in the book, including me, feel in some way as if they’re lost at sea, and are grasping for something to get them through. And the thing that they often grasp for is something that’s kind of irrational, makes no sense, is ridiculous…. And [the book] becomes almost a celebration of irrationality as a human character trait to be cherished.” Read more...