Kam Reads and Recs

A few years ago, my longtime children’s book editor rejected my idea for a new middle grade novel. The rejection hit me hard—the story, of t

On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a

In May 1947, Billie Holiday had a one-week engagement at Philadelphia’s Earle Theatre, one of the biggest venues in the city for Black enter

Book clubs and reading groups have long been important to marginalized communities.

Apparently, young people are afraid to let loose. Could Dancefloor 101 be the solution?

It's not the first time someone has tried to insert realism into a Robin Hood story... but it might be nice if it were the last.

“The Violet Hour” is a dreamy chronicle of fame, greed, and ambition, full of cartoonish personalities you’ve likely had the misfortune of e

“I remember taking a plaid dress, tearing it up, and using it as paint rags,” the 83-year-old painter tells me in a knee-to-knee interview a

Dogs have long occupied a position at the boundary where the human animal meets the rest of creation. The great Victorian critic John Ruskin

A little craft rant on points of view in fiction.

It’s Friday night in the house that Keillor built. That would be the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota—home to A Prairie Home Compan