Author Archives: Laura

June 03

The High Street by Alice Melvin

I traveled to San Francisco a year ago to attend a conference, and while my friend and I were out browsing in a charming shop, I found this book.  I had already spent too much money by this point, but once I laid eyes on The High Street, there was no not buying it.  It […]

Chapter One

Once upon a time, a graduate program in the English Department at the University of Iowa brought a handful of ladies to Iowa City.  They each hauled with them boxes upon boxes of novels and essays and poems, gradually discovering that the only thing they loved as much as reading those books was talking about […]