Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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February 27, 2015

Why We Chose It

By Daniel Torday

Vanessa Blakeslee on Pamela Erens’s The Understory When I’ve answered the “Why We Chose It” imperative about reviews on KROnline in the past I’ve focused on the books we’ve chosen […]

August 7, 2012

Why We Chose It

By Daniel Torday

Christopher Boucher’s How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive Much was made in literary circles of the fact that a scene in the first episode of the HBO series Girls—which you […]