Maureen Aitken My mother says my father’s 30-pound weight loss is the result of a renewed commitment to his health, and his vague expression I describe is actually the calm brought on by, not gazing out the window, but meditation, something I should consider, and his interest in shoveling snow…
Amy Goldmacher You’re making a cup of tea: you turn on the gas burner but it doesn’t light, and you keep twisting the knob to get the clicking sound and hoping it catches and meanwhile you’re just pouring gas into the air and you think there is a very real…
Welcome to another installment of If My Book, the Monkeybicycle feature in which authors compare their recently released books to weird things. This week Megan Staffel writes about The Causative Factor, her new novel, out now from Regal House. If The Causative Factor were a mountain hike, the start of…
