My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases (that you won't see lots of other places) plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.
Jessica Bryant Klagmann grew up in New England, studied writing in Fairbanks, Alaska, and now lives with her family in northern New Mexico. Her work has been published in environmental journals like Whitefish Review and Terrain.org. THIS IMPOSSIBLE BRIGHTNESS is her debut novel.
In this interview, I chat with Jessica Bryant Klagmann about This Impossible Brightness, how she came up with the idea for this novel, climate change and incorporating it into the story, focusing on the idea of listening, echoes, genre mashups, …