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On Valentine s Day, stories to renew your wows
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Feb. 10, 2021
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By Eleanor Farjeon
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Two weeks ago, I was casting about for a novel or short-story collection - something sweet - that would be just right for Valentine s Day. Being fond of anniversaries, I hoped there might be some appropriate book from 1921 due for centenary celebration. There was. But Eleanor Farjeon s Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard - containing six romantic fairy tales recounted by a wandering minstrel - turned out to be far more than just appropriate. It was magical.
Of course, I shouldn t have been surprised since Farjeon (1881-1965) is one of the 20th century s most beloved children s authors, equally adept at verse and prose. The Little Bookroom, a selection of some of her best stories, received Britain s 1955 Carnegie Medal and, in 1956, was honored with the inaugural Hans Christian Andersen Award. (The book is currently available in the N
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A new take on Baldwin by Kim McLarin, a slew of honors for local children’s publisher Candlewick, and a new book that thinks about what we eat, and why Nina MacLaughlin © LISA FISCHER Kim McLarin s new book explores her own life and a novel of James Baldwin.
Bookingmarking Baldwin
Kim McLarin, award-winning author of “Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life” and associate professor at Emerson College, explores the James Baldwin novel “Another Country” in a new book part of Ig Publishing’s “Bookmarked” series in which authors examine how a famous text influenced their path to both writing and being. In lucid, stirring prose, McLarin writes of her childhood, understanding herself as an outsider in her family and in school; she writes of her struggles at Exeter Academy, and her career in journalism, including at the New York Times. Through the lens of Baldwin’s novel, she looks at womanhood and manhood, sexuality, racism, learning
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Our February Front Porch Book Club Selection is Rural Voices Ashley Leath © Julia Ludham Edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter, this short story collection shines a light on country living.
Pull up a seat as we dive in to one book each month with the
Country LivingFront Porch Book Club >P, capping each month with a chat with the authors themselves. Our February selection is a short story collection edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter called
Rural Voices, our February Front Porch Book Club selection and very first young adult pick, we glimpse moments in the lives of teenagers from Utah to New York, Alaska to Georgia. Their backgrounds and experiences are as varied as their locations, but each one explores an aspect of country living that deserves attention and casts a spotlight on stereotypes and stigmas in illuminating and necessary ways.
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