Obsession…Dying for Love
As a young adult writer, I should have read Twilight a long time ago. But I admit, I resisted the urge. The literary snob in me sort of believes that any novel on the New York Times bestseller list...
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Can women be smart, empowered, AND happy? Ariel Gore tries to find out
Gore, Ariel. Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2010. $24.00. The final scene of the 2008 indie flick Happy-Go-Lucky encapsulates one of the core...
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Review of Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar (www.irenevilar.com) Other Press, 2009, $15.95 Irene Vilar’s second memoir explores a part of her life that she left out of her...
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Ariel Gore on Women, Happiness, and Self-Determination
My interview with Ariel Gore on women, happiness, and self-determination appears today on The Feminist Review. Gore’s new book BLUEBIRD: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness hits the stands today....
View ArticlePublisher’s Weekly reviews This Thing Called the Future
From today’s Publisher’s Weekly, a review of This Thing Called the Future: “Through the eyes of a conflicted teenager, Powers (The Confessional) composes a compelling, often harrowing portrait of a...
View ArticleInterview at Through the Tollbooth
Read an interview with J.L. Powers at Through the Tollbooth! Q: What about this novel makes you most proud? There is absolutely nothing on the market like it! It is young adult magical realism, set in...
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Emily Wing Smith–giveaway of Back When You Were Easier to Love
Emily Wing Smith and J.L. Powers-Kepler's Books This past week, I had the extraordinary privilege of doing three book events with young adult writer Emily Wing Smith. Our second young adult novels each...
View ArticleAndrew Brown–a recommendation
This afternoon, as I was thinking about what I wanted to read next, I thought I’d check to see if Andrew Brown had written any new books since the last one I read and loved (Street Blues: The...
View ArticleAn interview and a book discussion
Awesome poet and interviewer Marissa Bell Toffoli interviewed me last month and that interview is now live on her website. A highlight: “I want to have the world be tilted a little, to have it look a...
View ArticleKirkus Reviews Colors of the Wind
KIRKUS REVIEW July 28, 2014 Absorbing paintings carry this abbreviated story of George Mendoza, a blind runner and artist. George Mendoza wants to play basketball when he grows up, but then he sees...
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