2025: The Year of the Sophomore Novel
When it’s your first time doing something: trying a new hobby, accomplishing a big milestone, or even a…
by serenapuang December 25, 2025
When it’s your first time doing something: trying a new hobby, accomplishing a big milestone, or even a…
by serenapuang December 25, 2025
For the forty people memorialized in To Die For: a Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes, by Rosie Grant, there’s a…
by serenapuang October 8, 2025
We’re going into September 2025, and January feels like forever ago. So many things have changed since the…
by serenapuang September 9, 2025
As some of you know, I’ve been settling in Baton Rouge, and Friday marked three weeks on the…
by serenapuang August 11, 2024
Marsh — short for Marshmallow because she’s “so sweet and soft” — hates her nickname but goes by…
by serenapuang July 9, 2024
Newlyweds Lewis and Wren are an unlikely couple. Lewis loves performing –– both in his personal life on…
by serenapuang August 8, 2023
In R.F. Kuang’s darkly humorous novel, “Yellowface,” a floundering writer endeavors to hold on to her new place…
by serenapuang May 18, 2023
When Maxine Hong Kingston wrote her first book, “The Woman Warrior” in 1976, she originally intended to publish it…
by serenapuang April 12, 2023
The first book-to-movie adaptation I remember seeing is “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” My then-best…
by serenapuang February 28, 2023
In 2020, “American Dirt” a novel about the experiences of an undocumented Mexican woman and her son moving…
by serenapuang February 19, 2023