Recent content from Kathleen Rooney
Review: 'Marshmallow Clouds,' by Connie Wanek and Ted Kooser
POETRY: A book to ignite a love of poetry and nature in young readers.
Review: 'The Presence of Absence,' by Simon Van Booy
FICTION: Simon Van Booy uses a simple story about an author telling a story to explore the anything-but-simple process of telling a story.
Review: 'Compass,' by Murray Lee
FICTION: Murray Lee draws on his experiences in the Arctic to tell a critically comedic story about a bumbling would-be adventurer trapped on a drifting ice floe.
Review: 'A Tale of Five Cities and Other Memoirs,' by Joyce Elbert
NONFICTION: The unjustly neglected Joyce Elbert reminiscences about being a woman novelist in a man's world.
Review: 'Farewell Transmission,' by Will McGrath
NONFICTION: In "Farewell Transmission," Will McGrath offers globetrotting essays on obscure lives and furtive vocations, alerting readers to secrets without and within.
Review: 'Violets,' by Kyung-sook Shin
FICTION: The deceptively quiet and devastating story of a lonely young woman within a sexist and shifting South Korean society.
Review: 'Splendid Anatomies,' by Allison Wyss
FICTION: Allison Wyss uses surreal humor, vulnerability and sincerity to explore the wonder and absurdity of having a body.
Review: 'Marshmallow Clouds,' by Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek
Two prominent American poets offer poems to ignite a love of both poetry and nature in the imaginations of young readers.
Review: 'City of Incurable Women,' by Maud Casey
Maud Casey fuses fact and fiction to give unforgettable voices to 19th-century female psychiatric patients.
Review: 'Very Cold People,' by Sarah Manguso
Nonfiction writer Sarah Manguso's debut novel, "Very Cold People," builds a chilly New England coming-of-age story out of vignettes.