Good morning, everyone.

This week we published Mia Carroll's review of The Red Wind Howls by Tsering Döndrup, translated by Christopher Peacock and published by Columbia University Press. Mia has reviewed for us several times in the past and we're always glad to share her writing again.

And this week's story, kicking off a series of stories chosen by guest editor Nicholas Claro, is "Acts of Service" by Kim Weldin.

If you (like me) are in the Boston area, there's a rare opportunity this week to find two of our editors in the same place, when fiction editor Lacey Dunham and Laura Venita Green read from their debut novels The Belles and Sister Creatures at Porter Square Books at 7:00pm on Wednesday, November 12. If you're there, please say hello!

And now available for preorder is Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir, by contributor Molly Gaudry and forthcoming next month from our friends at Rose Metal Press.

Finally, our annual list of recommended reading from Necessary Fiction's editor is forthcoming in a few weeks. In the meantime, what are the books of fiction that really spoke to you this year? What are you recommending and perhaps giving this winter? We're not so concerned with the competitive absurdity of declaring "best" books, but we'd love to know and to share which recent publications impressed or amazed or mattered to our readers. Let me know in an email reply and I'll round them up for future newsletters.

Thanks for reading,

Steve Himmer