Jo’s Pick of the Week: Inland by Tea Obreht

Tea Obreht burst on the literary stage in 2011 with her magnificent novel, The Tiger’s Wife. She was hailed by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Fans, including me, eagerly waited for her next book.…

NerdCon: Need to Read List

Last weekend I had the privilege of going to NerdCon: Stories and getting to meet several authors and artists talk about the importance of the story in all forms. I watched the featured guests debate anything from the timeless issue of sock-sock-shoe-shoe or sock-shoe-sock-shoe (the order in which you put on your socks and shoes),…