Blog Posts

‘I love a build’: uncovering happiness in ‘Don’t Call it a Comeback’

By Kate Blackwood / February 28, 2026

We can all learn from people who are just wired different. And in the case of me devouring Keira D’Amato’s story, it’s a case of complete joy in the discovery.

Love and electricity: The novel ‘Child of Light’

By Kate Blackwood / August 13, 2025

Without breaking out of the character of 1896, Jesi Bender’s CHILD OF LIGHT gives an eerie premonition of electricity’s progress in the past 125 years.

What to read on vacation

By Kate Blackwood / July 4, 2025

Never bring nonfiction about the arctic on vacation to Albania. Especially if it’s a library book.

Writing about music

By Kate Blackwood / September 30, 2023

“This Woman’s Work” gathers 17 essays by women who use concrete experiences of music – a mix tape, a favorite song, an embarrassing encounter with a rock star – to open up larger stories.