This week's newsletter is loaded up with fantastic reading ideas for the longer, sunnier days of springtime. The "varied and insightful" stories in Guadalupe Nettel's The Accidentals follow people "seeking to make connections and right the wrongs of the past." In Intraterrestrials, Karen G. Lloyd provides a "thrilling jaunt" through the subterranean environments where microscopic organisms shape life on earth. And Bonnie Tsui offers "the best kind of coaching" about human musculature in the "energizing, friendly, and never preachy" On Muscle. Plus, in El Niño, Pam Muñoz Ryan has crafted "a sweeping, lyrical work of middle-grade magical realism" about a young swimmer and the Amazonian queen for whom California is named.
In The Writer's Life, Barry Lyga shares how his ongoing I Hunt Killers series transitioned age groups over time and why one story was vital in pulling together his new adult anthology, Before the Hunt.