Hannah Fries edits Storey books on subjects ranging from building to nature to food. She formerly worked at Orion magazine, where she edited prize-winning essays, fiction, and poetry. Her own collection of poetry, Little Terrarium, was published in 2016.
Last year, project editor Hannah Fries spent a week at the Heartwood School for the Homebuilding Crafts, exploring her personal interest in the art of timber framing. Now in the process of editing a book on the subject for Storey, she recently returned … Read More
’Tis the season. Winter has been long and cold. The woodpile is shrinking. Immune systems are battle-weary while viruses are just flexing their microscopic muscles. (Or they would be, if they had muscles.) What do we have to protect ourselves with, besides measly hand soap? … Read More
So, there might have been a period of time in college when, in a fit of asceticism, I washed my hair with nothing but a bar of Dr. Bronner’s soap and rinsed with a capful of plain white vinegar. My friend had advised me that … Read More
My friends Amelia Wolfe and Will Conklin are the proud farmers of the burgeoning Sky View Farm in Sheffield, Massachusetts. They raise milk cows, goats, pigs, and poultry and have recently started a meat share (of which my husband and I heartily partake). Read More
Now this is midsummer bounty: the bush beans in our garden have come just ahead of the cucumbers, and it’s a good thing, because I’m not sure there’s enough space in the boiling water bath — or on the kitchen counter — for everyone. The … Read More
This year, my husband, Adam, and I decided on a unique vacation: hoping that someday we’d be able to assist in building our own house, we signed up to take a timber framing course at The Heartwood School for the Homebuilding Crafts in … Read More
Many of Storey’s books are beautiful to hold and look at, but Drink the Harvest really knocks my socks off — the berry-splotched pages, radiant ciders, glowing juices, all that light shining through. It makes my mouth water for summer. Last year about … Read More
It’s a massive ritual few outside of the publishing world ever take part in. Nonetheless, spring has a way of coaxing the more reclusive and bookish segment of the population away from their computers and writing nooks as thousands descend on the Javits Center in … Read More
Back in March, when I was interviewing for a new job at Storey Publishing, the long winter was still going strong. The snowpack had absorbed a little rain and then frozen solid as temperatures plummeted yet again, turning the yard into an ice rink. But … Read More