My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. All of these will make great reads for this winter and many are books you won’t see many other places; I strive to find those under-the-radar gems. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.

Elizabeth Passarella

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Elizabeth Passarella is a magazine writer and the author of the essay collection Good Apple. She is a former editor at Real Simple, Vogue, and In Style, and is currently a contributing editor at Southern Living. Elizabeth is originally from Memphis, Tennessee, but has lived in New York City for 22 years. She and her husband are raising three kids in a two bedroom apartment.

July 25, 2023

Interview with Elizabeth Passarella - IT WAS AN UGLY COUCH ANYWAY

In this interview, Elizabeth and I discuss It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway, narrating her audiobook, getting the Prologue right and why she had to rewrite it many times, her favorite essay in the collection, New York City during the …

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Sept. 28, 2021

Elizabeth Passarella - GOOD APPLE

Elizabeth and I discuss Good Apple, how her love affair with New York City began, raising kids in Manhattan, how the term evangelical has become political, the loss of any middle ground in the United States today, her hilarious book …

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