Nina St. Pierre

Growing up Evangelical in the rural Midwest, writer and astrologer Jeanna Kadlec did everything right.

Until a couple years ago, I’d never worn perfume regularly. It always felt either wildly out of reach, or frilly and cheap.

Set in the early ’90s, Later is a prismatic rendering of life in Provincetown, MA, at the height of the HIV and AIDs epidemic. In Later, Lisicky renders it a one-word mythology: “Town."

In Mosaic, HBO’S six episode television series directed by Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Ferrin plays Petra Neill.

Kari Luna’s debut young adult novel, The Theory of Everything, is a bright, shiny antidote to the dystopias and vampire love stories that dominate today’s YA shelves.

Lidia Yuknavitch gives the term “body language” fresh meaning in her debut novel, Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books). In response to Sigmund Freud’s famous case