Virtual Author Hour with Anna Malaika Tubbs
Anna Malaika Tubbs discussed her book, The Three Mothers, with Holly Hubbard Preston and Naomi Chamblin of Napa Bookmine.
Keep readingMIA at the Library
What’s a library without a children’s librarian? Holly Hubbard Preston says the townspeople of St. Helena are finding out.
Keep readingOut in the Open
From the street, the Stonewall Inn isn’t much to look at. Some red brick topped by a plaster façade, punctuated by two arched doorways and four windows, one of which is rectangular and filled with a neon sign.
Keep readingChain of Good
In the lost and found of life, Holly Hubbard Preston learned that what you find isn’t necessarily what you were looking for.
Keep readingTrauma Block
As I absorbed this tough news, I listened as my friend described the so-called dark wall her relative was trapped behind, rendering her all but unreachable.
Keep readingShot Glass
As a structural element, walls have many uses. In addition to separating people and spaces, walls hold up roofs and provide a hiding place for electrical equipment and the occasional mouse.
Keep readingStone Spirit Revival
I’m in the Hawaiian Islands this week for the Kauai Writer’s Conference that was taken online after I’d already booked my flight and lodging. So here I am working, swimming and also reading.
Keep readingThe Hole in the Wall
The guidebook promised us the one place in all of West Berlin where no physical barrier existed between the two Germanys. And here it was. Wide enough to allow railcar passage, this singular gap in the famous Cold War all lay at the end of a wide Straße in the tiny West Berlin neighborhood of Steinstücken.
Keep readingField of My Dreams
The field pictured above is a real place, located near the border separating the neighboring German states of Bavaria and Thuringia. I remember being weak in the knees as I snapped the shot. About five months earlier I’d pictured this place, while writing a scene for an MFA class in my tiny room at the Pod Hotel in New York.
Keep readingThe Wall2Wall Project
Since early childhood, I’ve been preoccupied with walls. Imprinted in my earliest memory is an illustration of a boy on a swing peering over a wall. The picture sits alongside a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson aptly named “The Swing”. My mother, seated beside me on our nubby green couch, is reading aloud from A Children’s Garden of Verses.
Keep readingVirtual Book Talk: The Last Nomad
Napa Bookmine Author Event // Shugri Said Salh – The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert On August 4, 2021, Napa Bookmine…
Keep readingVirtual Author Hour with Carol Edgarian
New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian and Holly Hubbard Preston discuss Carol’s latest novel, VERA, on Thursday, June 3rd 2021. This grand adventure set…
Keep readingGirl Growing
First published by online literary journal, Herstry. Elise is standing in front of her dresser mirror, a tangerine in one hand, a wad of Kleenex…
Keep readingBurned to the Bone
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series Affordable housing in the Napa Valley is as urgent a problem as it is elsewhere and this year’s…
Keep readingFormer St. Helenan treks across Norway, raises $1.07 million for PKU awareness
Holly Hubbard Preston for the St. Helena Star TRONDHEIM, Norway — Former St. Helena mother Alison Michaux Reynolds completed her nine-day trek across Norway at…
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