Yvette Benavides
Yvette Benavides is a Texas Public Radio contributor. She teaches creative writing at Our Lady of the University.
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Katie Crouch’s new novel is set in Namibia where two central characters, American women, are “embassy wives” who have transplanted their lives to follow their husbands to their diplomatic roles. -
In her debut memoir, Chloe Shaw guides us on an emotional journey that anyone who has ever loved and lost a dog will appreciate.
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Jessica Hopper is a pioneer in the field of music criticism. She examines the music of women — in many contexts, from songwriters to producers — through an intersectional feminist lens.
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In her new collection of essays, "Broken (In the Best Possible Way)," Jenny Lawson shares her experiences with anxiety and depression.
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Families play a big part in Elizabeth McCracken’s latest story collection, The Souvenir Museum.
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Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "The Children Stay" by Alice Munro.
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Poems give language and voice to the things that are sometimes incommunicable. Edward Hirsch knows something about this.
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Daisy Hernández embarks on a journey that takes her all over the country to reveal the problem of Chagas, the kissing bug disease that ravages the human body and destroys families.
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A new anthology of the modern American short story offers a wonderfully varied collection of voices, forms and styles.
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Two little girls in 1973 St. Louis are at the heart of Marisa Silver’s latest novel, "The Mysteries."
