Interview with Angela Pisel author of 'With Love From the Inside': "We, as a society, have executed innocent people. And that to me is not okay. In the end, this novel is about finding hope and forgiveness even in the worst of circumstances."
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Can the Arts Thrive Under a Trump Presidency? Writers Weigh in
I’m fortunate enough to interview talented writers and indie filmmakers on a regular basis, so I got in touch with a few of them and asked two basic questions: how they felt about the outcome of the presidential election, and what it meant to them as writers, artists, or patrons of the arts.
Read More »Interview: Georgia Clark, Author of ‘The Regulars’
In her new novel 'The Regulars', Georgia Clark brilliantly combines feminism, true beauty, and a wee bit of magic.
Read More »Book Review: ‘And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer’ by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman's 'And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer': "It turned into a small tale of how I'm dealing with slowly losing the greatest minds I know, about missing someone who is still here, and how I wanted to explain it all to my children. I'm letting it go now, for what it's worth."
Read More »Interview: Hannah Kohler, Author of ‘The Outside Lands’
"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."
Read More »Hooked on a Book From Just One Line
One line or one paragraph can grab us. But can it make a book memorable? Try these on for size.
Read More »Interview: Stephanie Gangi, Author of ‘The Next’
Interview with Stephanie Gangi author of 'The Next': "I went with the whole idea of a ghost as a kind of metaphor for women of a certain age, that invisibility, not to mention how marginalized you are when you’re sick. All of these things really coalesced for me in the writing of the novel, a sort of the ghost in the machine."
Read More »Book Review: ‘We That Are Left’ by Clare Clark
Clare Clark's new novel 'We That Are Left' is a heartfelt story about The Great War, and a family that must come to terms with how their lives are irrevocably changed by it.
Read More »Interview: Clare Clark, Author of ‘We That Are Left’
"I think a novelist has to feel a bond with all their primary characters, has almost to love them, in spite of or perhaps even because of their flaws. Unless you feel them deeply, they never truly come alive."
Read More »Exciting new fiction hitting the shelves in November
What better way to step away from the emotional exhaustion provided by this year’s presidential elections than by pitching head first into an awesome new book.
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