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The night after Thanksgiving, Elena Hood takes the turkey carcass out of the refrigerator and carves what is left of it onto three plates, with a block of frozen peas melting in its own synthetic butter. The meat is dry. She knows it is dry, and the knowledge feels to her like a moral failure. […]

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On the night after Thanksgiving, two teenagers share a couch, a comforter and a bowl of sweets while a classic Nora Ephron romance plays out its final scene. The girl is convinced the film proves something: that a person can simply know, on sight, that they have met the love of their life. The boy, […]

The motel on El Camino Real is dressed as a Swiss chalet, with snowshoes on the lobby walls and a desk clerk in a farmer’s brown wool suit. Across the street, after dinner, an electric sedan sits dark with two broad silhouettes in the front. Reacher leaves his curtains open six inches, turns off the […]

An impassioned poetry collection about the myriad forms of love Featuring rhythmic poems and raw journal entries, Crazy Love is a collection all about love. It’s a journey through the waves of romantic love, the challenges of self-love, and the unexpected ways that love shows up in heartache and healing. The poetry featured across this […]

On the afternoon of the twins’ seventeenth birthday, the party turns into a concert. Emma sits at the piano in a blue dress, her brother CheChe sings, and the guests dance around them until the applause comes. It is the kind of scene most novels would rush past on the way to the plot. When […]