by Tania Moore | Sep 28, 2020 | Conversations, Writing
Sometimes something happens that you’ve hoped and worked and waited for for so long, you can’t quite believe it’s real, or maybe it’s more that you’re afraid if you blink, it will go away. Maybe this happens when, for example, your children are born. One day they’re...
by Tania Moore | Mar 28, 2020 | Bookshelf
ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS, by Ocean Vuong, is an incandescent, devastating novel/prose poem. Written as a letter from Little Dog to his mother, a letter she cannot read because she’s illiterate, the story explores language, family, identity, and what it means to...
by Tania Moore | Mar 20, 2020 | Bookshelf
SILVER SPARROW, by Tayari Jones, is a complex, superbly written novel with no easy answers. Jones has created flawed, believable characters who struggle with difficult moral issues of family and loyalty even as the consequences of their choices unravel with painful...
by Tania Moore | Mar 7, 2020 | Bookshelf
How to Set Yourself on Fire, by Julia Dixon Evans, is a quirky story in the vein of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, only sweeter. Sheila, 35, is a mess. She can’t hold down a job, she barely sleeps, and when she does it’s often on the stoop of her...
by Tania Moore | Jan 22, 2020 | Conversations, Events
The final installment of my interview with Daniela Petrova, author of HER DAUGHTER’S MOTHER, is up on the Columbia Fiction Foundry YouTube channel. Daniela’s debut novel, published by Putnam, has been named “One of Five Thrillers to Read This Summer” by Time...
