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.
Laura Spence-Ash’s fiction has appeared in One Story, New England Review, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. Her critical essays and book reviews appear regularly in the Ploughshares blog. She received her MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark, and she lives in New Jersey.
In this interview, Laura and I discuss Beyond That, the Sea, exploring how someone moves forward when they can't quite figure out who they are and where they belong, telling the story through multiple points of view and why she …