“So, pretty much a perfect storm for Jo Ann.” What books are on your night stand? “Dear Miss Metropolitan,” Carolyn Ferrell’s upcoming novel; “Homeland Elegies,” by Ayad ...

Ducks come up several times in Beard’s latest book ... Madden, author of the memoir “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls,” is inspired by her fearlessness. “I trust Jo Ann Beard ...

In a world increasingly lived online, there is a grounding comfort to Jo Ann Beard’s refreshingly ... A knock on the door, and I open it.” Her new book, “Festival Days,” dwells in similar ...

A writer’s writer, Jo Ann Beard is “a kind of literary celebrity ... each moment as though it were a cavernous room.” In an author’s note Beard thanks the editors of the much-missed ...