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Review of Corinne Demas’s novel Daughters (Little A, New York, 2025) Yes, you can go home again, but you might revert to the same person you were when you first decided to leave. Corinne Demas’s novel Daughters is a compelling examination of a daughter’s long-held resentment and fear of disappointing a parent, . . .

Tell us about your relationship to writing. My relationship to writing began by being a voracious reader. I had a pivotal fourth grade teacher who instilled in me a practice of continuously engaging with books and reflecting on them after completion by submitting book reports. That same teacher also gave her students . . .

His guests are still drinking, and the smoke from his meat fire rises, on this windless evening, straight up into the trees. – John Cheever, “O Youth and Beauty!” Are you filling your grill? Tis the seasonFor hanging outdoors under trees onA warm, sunny dayWith a brewski arrayand a comfortable lawn chair . . .