Biased

Well hello, Charles Baxter. What’s that? Your new book is carried along by an undercurrent of quiet Midwestern drama?

Whether surveying a loving but prickly mother-son relationship strained by a night-school classroom visit or a drunken grad student’s hapless journey to pick up his stranded fiancée on a snowy night, Baxter is a melancholy expert craftsman.

On it.

Published by Sally

I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico.