My 2025 Summer Reading Guide is out! It is an 18-page printable document that contains over 60 reading recommendations including books from spring and summer 2025 as well mystery series recommendations, fiction/nonfiction pairings, fall 2025 titles that I love, backlist titles, and some fall most anticipated reads. I have read every page of over 90 books and sampled at least 40 more to find the ones that really resonated with me and that I can personally recommend. Please fill out this form to indicate which form of payment (a tip in the amount of your choosing), and I will send it to you!

Alison Wisdom

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Alison Wisdom's short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Electric Literature, Catapult, and elsewhere. Her first novel We Can Only Save Ourselves was published in 2021 and her second The Burning Season in 2022, both from Harper Perennial/Harper Collins. She lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and two children.

Feb. 1, 2023

Interview with Alison Wisdom - THE BURNING SEASON

In this interview, Alison and I discuss The Burning Season, her inspiration for this book, her fascination with cults as well as the wider world's fascination with them, infertility, writing from a first person point of view, and much more.
Guest: Alison Wisdom