photo: Paul Schraub I first met Carolyn Burke in 1995, when we discussed her biography of the early 20th-century artist Mina Loy. A decade later, Burke and Hazel Rowley shared some of their corre...
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photo courtesy Camille A. Collins I’ve known Camille A. Collins for ages in her capacity as a book publicist, but I hadn’t realized she was also a writer until she told me about her debut YA ...
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photo courtesy Leesa Cross-Smith I first learned about Leesa Cross-Smith in late 2017, when she wrote an essay about country musician Sturgill Simpson for Oxford American. Well, really, it was as...
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photo: Kaci Smart The Language of Trees is the third in Steve Wiegenstein‘s series of novel about Daybreak, a fictional utopian community in 19th-century Missouri. I’d not come across the pre...
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photo: Elizabeth Jebef, Eyebright Studios Every author faces a challenge in coming to understand their characters, but Melina Sempill Watts set herself a particularly tough task, in that the prot...
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photo: H&H Photographers I first met Sonia Taitz back in 2012, when we recorded an episode of Life Stories to discuss her memoir, The Watchmaker’s Daughter. Since then, she’s been focusing on...
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photo: Segbingway As I was reading the opening chapters of Mike Barnes’ The Adjustment League, I was reminded of the private eye novels I’d read in my formative years, real classic hardboiled...
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photo: Eric Tortora Plato It’s funny: I wouldn’t have thought of Rowan Hisayo Buchanan‘s Harmless Like You as a “New York novel,” exactly, even though, as she concedes in the essay belo...
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photo: StanisÅ‚aw Jerzmański Eva Stachniak has written several novels, including The Winter Palace and Empress of the Night. Her latest, The Chosen Maiden, has just come out, and it vividly r...
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photo: Jiyang Chen Courtney Elizabeth Mauk‘s new novel, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things, introduces us to a family in pain: a mother, father, and son all struggling to cope with the ...
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