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New year, new books. At least, that’s what we wrote back in December, when we were just starting to add titles to our 2017 reading lists. Now that we’re nine days into the new year, our to-read list has only grown. And while our first book preview was...

One winter, author Kyo Maclear found herself with a broken part. “I don’t know what it was that was broken,” she writes in her new book, Birds Art Life, “only that whatever widget had previously kept me on plan, running fluidly along, no longer worked...

"The only way to survive is to approach life at an oblique angle, swerve from our human habits of self-absorption." —Kyo MacLear, in "An Uncivilized Love" (2012)      I wish I was still alive.  I wish I wasn't dead.&nbsp...

Picture books are tricky creatures. The challenge often lies in the ability to tell a story over 30 or so pages, with just a few hundred words. Even after all the right words are chosen, the images have to work with them to reveal another layer of story...

This article has been published at RLSLOG.net - visit our site for full content. A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small...