Light reading can be enlightening.
It has been a busy season here at the Buddhist Fiction Blog, and I have three pieces of news to share with readers before I return to reviewing. A New Manga Memoir from Sumeru Press My friend and colleague John Continue reading
In March, author Julia Kurnia wrote to me about her new middle-grade novel, Deep Calls, and kindly offered me an advance copy to read; I m glad I said yes. I finished the book last week during the recent European heatwave, Continue reading
Summer is my favourite time to catch up on reading, and this year there are a few titles worth putting on your warm weather reading list. I have four suggestions, spanning post-apocalyptic fiction, middle-grade speculative fiction, short stories, and poetry, Continue reading
I drafted this blog post almost two weeks ago around a confluence of events that had me thinking about publishing, Buddhism, and John Negru’s new book, Engaged Buddhism (Sumeru Press, Inc, 2026). And then a copy of the book magically Continue reading
If you ve ever wanted a quick way to find out whether the blog has covered a particular book, you re in luck. I ve added a new page, Works Covered, to the blog s navigation tabs. https://buddhistfictionblog.wordpress.com/about-2/ The page lists Buddhist fiction works Continue reading
David Guterson, the Bainbridge Island author best known for his PEN/Faulkner award-winning debut Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since early adulthood. Yet Evelyn in Transit (Norton, 2026), his seventh novel, is his first Continue reading