Katherine Wyrick
Content by Katherine Wyrick
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On a recent call to her Marin County home, just north of San Francisco, Tiffany Baker seems unruffled, despite the fact that her babysitter hasn't shown up to corral her three young children, who a
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It’s a first for both of us—Joe Blair’s first time being interviewed and my first time calling an author at a John Deere assembly plant.
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Automatic writing, homemade ouija boards, bodysnatching, mistaken identity—these are but a few of the spooky pleasures that await the reader of Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey N
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What happens when a family of five is unleashed on two unsuspecting grandparents?
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After chronicling her African childhood in Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller turns to the adventurous and sometimes tragic lives of her parents in Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.
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Mary Higgins Clark and daughter Carol Higgins Clark have a way of finishing each other’s sentences—and not just when talking.
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Ambient city sounds—horns, sirens—provide a fitting soundtrack for a recent conversation with Cathleen Schine, a New Yorker who has written so astutely about the lives of other New York
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Kids of the picky persuasion will balk at being forced to eat, or even look at, a vegetable. The mere sight of something green on my daughter's plate can, quite literally, bring her to tears.
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Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld (wife of Jerry and mother of three) offers almost 100 ideas for creatively healthy meals. Doughnuts with pumpkin and sweet potato?
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Signing is great, but whining, that's another story. Everyone knows the sound; it's the one thing that can make the most patient of parents loose their cool.
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We recently made a call to Ann Patchett at her favorite spot on the globe—
the handsome red brick house she shares with her husband on a tree-lined street in Nashville. The first part of our conversation is taken up with talk of dogs; Rose, Patchett’s great love and the subject of several essays, is now 15 years old.
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These days, it seems that everyone wants to write a memoir, but let's face it not everyone should.
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Cecelia Ahern is so wildly successful for her 26 years, you'd think her head would be spinning like the tornado that whisked Dorothy off to Oz.
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If you're the parent of a boy, Dr. Leonard Sax's book Boys Adrift: Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men is required reading.
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It’s a call that changes everything. Not the one to author Thrity Umrigar’s home in Cleveland—where she is associate professor of English at Case Western Reserve University—but the one her character Armaiti makes in her compelling new novel, The World We Found.
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Relationships are complex things especially those of the familial sort. Defining yourself within and apart from parents and siblings can be a life's work, at turns painful and liberating.
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Most parents are familiar with the figurative “landmines” of childhood: scraped knees, hurt feelings, unsuccessful playdates.
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To work, or not to work. That is the question for many a modern mama.
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Kevin Brockmeier is easy to spot. He enters the café wearing a long overcoat, wire-rimmed glasses round as compasses and the subtlest look of unease.
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Imagine living within the confines of a 12x12 room, the only natural light coming from a skylight, a television your only link to the outside world.
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Paulette Kouffman Sherman is a dating expert and psychologist with a holistic approach to finding a mate.
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One of the newest additions to The Brazelton Way series is Mastering Anger and Aggression by America's Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., and Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D.
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Meet your new best friend Sophie Applebaum of Surrey, Pennsylvania. She's smart, insightful and outrageously funny.
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Adam Wasson's hilarious Eats, Poops ∧ Leaves is a must for parents or parents-to-be. Wasson proves himself to be the Emily Post of parenting, except that he's really funny.
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First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes someone in a baby carriage, but what comes, say, 10 years later? A midlife crisis?
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Tademy plumbs family history for glimpses of a violent past Lalita Tademy's journey to Red River began long before she left the corporate world and her prestigious job as vice president of Su
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Elizabeth Kostova’s gripping debut novel, The Historian (2005), explored the legend of Dracula, undoubtedly contributing t
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The American family as we know it is changing. Nontraditional families now make up a large part of the population, with almost 10 million single mothers in the U.S. alone.
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Kaye Gibbons' voice sounds much as one might expect from a North Carolina born-and-raised girl.
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What won't we do for our readers? We will travel the world, venture into dangerous lands literally. For the first time ever, we bring you a Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe Exclusive.
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There is an abundance of books about how to find a man, keep a man, make a man happy. But how about a book about scaring a man away?
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Street smart If you were a child at some point during the last 30 years, then you have not escaped the influence of Sesame Street.
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YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOPPE Color me enlightened Editor's note: Each month we see lots of books. Some of the curious arrivals are featured in this space.
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YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOPPE What's your poison? Editor's note: Each month we see lots of books. Some of the curious arrivals are featured in this space.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party wields her pen again and turns the mundane into the magical.
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Once in a while a novel comes along that exerts a certain power over you that has a presence, if you will. After Life, by debut novelist Rhian Ellis, is such a book.
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Norris Church Mailer has taken the old adage write what you know to heart.
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When Kim Edwards began writing a follow-up to her wildly successful novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, she intended to create a contemporary story in the picturesque area of
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She may be 20 years sober and a Catholic convert, but don’t get the wrong impression—Mary Karr is no “candy-ass” (her word).
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Having integrated some of these philosophies into your parenting practice, you're ready to entrust someone else with the task. Or are you?
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Fans of Jane Hamilton, and there are many, know her for her provocative, heartbreaking dramas and her unique Midwestern sensibility.
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Signs, signs, everywhere are signs . . . Trying to understand the wants and needs of babies and toddlers can often feel like attempting communication with alien life forms.
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Somehow it seems fitting that a conversation with Gail Caldwell would be punctuated by the jubilant barks of a dog—fitting because her exquisite new memoir, Let’s Take the Long
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Don't let her list of credentials and accomplishments intimidate you.
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Let's start at the very beginning with Baby Must-Haves: The Essential Guide to Everything from Cribs to Bibs. Parenting magazine has long been the voice of reason for moms and dads alike.
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Once you've got the gear, it's time to rear that beautiful baby of yours.
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There's a sweet new voice in the world of Southern fiction, and it would be wise to listen.
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Teenage Waistland, written by Abby Ellin, addresses the timely subject of childhood obesity. There's been a slew of books on this topic recently, but this one stands out from the pack.
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On the other hand . . . maybe parenting is more of an exact science than previously realized.
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During a recent call to best-selling author Lionel Shriver's London home, she reflects on the questions her new novel raises about the serious stuff of life: romantic love, the road not taken
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Holistic health care a natural approach to healing which considers both the mind and the body, the spiritual as well as the physical is surging in popularity, and childcare is no exception.
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Not your Run-of-the-mill parent
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One of the newest additions to The Brazelton Way series is Understanding Sibling Rivalry by America's Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., and Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides presents readers with his valentine to the love story in My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro.
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