Authors Carrie Callaghan and Mieke Eerkens explore the past in differing ways in their most recent books. Mieke’s All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents is a memoir with implications for today, and Carrie’s A Light of Her Own fills in the gaps in the life story of a woman painter at the time of Rembrandt. In their Author to Author conversation, Carrie and Mieke go deep about the risks of memoir and the allure…
By Refresh Editors You may have gathered that we’re animal lovers by the fact that we marked Valentine’s Day with my essay which was a love letter to cats, but did you know we have a variety of science pieces in our archive? We’ve been lucky to interview experts, and to have science writers delve into the wildest of wildlife. Read along if you interested in exploring the wonders of the natural world with us. And if you want to…
Eva Seyler’s and Rachel Lyon’s novels are set decades apart. In The War in Our Hearts, Eva tells a story of love conquering fear in the WWI era, and Rachel delves into the artist communities of Brooklyn in the late 1980s in Self-Portrait With Boy. In true writer fashion, however, they draw connections as they share each other’s inspirations and writerly process in their Author to Author conversation. Eva: Hi Rachel! Rachel: Hi Eva! So excited to be in discussion…
By Andrea Crowley-Hughes To say that I have always loved cats is an understatement. As a teen growing up long before the days of Jackson Galaxy, I pored over a book about cat behavior. Relatives would get me cat calendars every year. My even younger self had a cadre of plush cats I carried with me from room to room. Before I turned seven, a friend and I carried away a cat who was having sticks pelted at her from…
By Refresh Editors Welcome to that odd stretch of the year after the holiday season where either freezing temperatures or the lack of celebratory occasions are liable to make the days feel dull. This particular passage can be hard to navigate, but I’ve often thought of it as a very interior season: a time past the bluster of New Year’s Resolutions and before the year is old enough to reminisce on. It’s a good time to dive into some personal…