The May Queen editor Andrea Richesin (far left) introduces eight contributors to the anthology about women's life discoveries as they turn 30 and live through the subsequent decade at a reading in Brooklyn indie Book Court. From left: Richesin, Louise Jarvis Flynn, Heather Juergensen, Ayun Halliday, Jennifer Baumgardner, Heather Chaplin, Sara Woster, Kim Askew, and Ivy Meeropol.

Richesin and Askew are also co-editing 3 Things Before 40, a blog where various contributors are supposed to be discussing their eponymous ambitions, but right now it's primarily an engaging tour diary. Not that there's anything wrong with that.