Writer. Reader. Watcher of exorbitant amounts of television. Allison is a Michigan native with an MA in professional writing from Carnegie Mellon. She earns her living writing for other people and then writes for herself at night. She currently lives outside Pittsburgh with her beloved dog Gulliver, who is kind of a jerk. Follow her on Twitter @AllisonPageRuss or on Instagram @read_write_and_be_merry.
Michelle McNamara died before she could see the case solved, but now an arrest has been made in the Golden State Killer case, the subject of her book I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
“You can’t have too much dog in a book.” Quotes from Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.
Do you change your favorite book based on who is asking the question?
Stuck on what to get someone for a bookish gift exchange? Start here.
Done with the Joan Didion documentary? Binge-watch these author documentaries next.
On John Green's latest, TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, becoming a nerdfighter, and how even a one-sided friendship can change your experience with books.
On the draw of books about your hometown and one reader's relationship with books about Michigan, including STATION ELEVEN and DARE ME.
Literary names for your new dog (or cat, rabbit, bird, fish, whatever).
