Among the 25 books reviewed this week: the brides of Dracula "come to glorious un-life" in A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, "a lush, erotic tale of obsession"; The River You Touch, Chris Dombrowski's "passionate ode to the beauty of the western land" that became his True North; and CSK-John Steptoe Award-winner David Barclay Moore's Holler of the Fireflies, "a feel-good book that still manages to go deep into heavy topics," centered on Javari's summer at a STEM camp; plus so many more!
In The Writer's Life, author/artist Oliver Jeffers converses with Stephen Smartt, a professor at Queens University Belfast and leading authority on exploding stars, about Meanwhile Back on Earth, Jeffers's picture book inspired by Smartt's 10km scale model of the solar system.