Henriette Lazaridis Power is a first-generation Greek-American who has degrees in English literature from Middlebury College; Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar; and the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Harvard for ten years, serving as an academic dean for four of those. She is the founding editor of The Drum, a literary magazine publishing exclusively in audio
Friday, 31 May 2013
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Lauren Roedy Vaughn
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Lauren Roedy Vaughn is an award-winning educator who has spent twenty years teaching English to high school students with language-based learning disabilities. Vaughn lives with her husband in Los Angeles, where she is an avid yogini and Big Lebowski nut.
Her new, debut novel is OCD, The Dude, and Me. From Vaughn's Q & A with Briana at Pages Unbound:
How has teaching high school English
Her new, debut novel is OCD, The Dude, and Me. From Vaughn's Q & A with Briana at Pages Unbound:
How has teaching high school English
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Julie Sarkissian
Posted on 01:03 by Unknown
Julie Sarkissian is a graduate of Princeton University, where she won the Francis Leon Paige Award for creative writing, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her new novel is Dear Lucy.
From her Q & A with Jaime Boler at Bookmagnet's Blog:JB: Please describe Dear Lucy in ten words or less.
JS: Disabled girl, pregnant teenager and talking chicken vs. the world.
JB:
From her Q & A with Jaime Boler at Bookmagnet's Blog:JB: Please describe Dear Lucy in ten words or less.
JS: Disabled girl, pregnant teenager and talking chicken vs. the world.
JB:
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Virginia Morell
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Virginia Morell's latest book is Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures.
From her Q & A with Amy Sommer for Westside Today:WT: The description of your book says that “dolphins that rumble like rival street gangs”. Really? How? Also, is there a Michael Buffer-esque creature who serves as the ringmaster?
VM: In the wild, male bottle-nose dolphins form all-male partnerships
From her Q & A with Amy Sommer for Westside Today:WT: The description of your book says that “dolphins that rumble like rival street gangs”. Really? How? Also, is there a Michael Buffer-esque creature who serves as the ringmaster?
VM: In the wild, male bottle-nose dolphins form all-male partnerships
Monday, 27 May 2013
George Saunders
Posted on 01:03 by Unknown
George Saunders's fourth collection of stories is Tenth of December.
From his Q & A with Killian Fox for the Guardian:
I was intrigued to learn that you were once a fan of Ayn Rand. For a writer so alert to how capitalism can grind people down, that's unexpected.
It's kind of a sweet story. I was in high school in Chicago, not really doing any work. Neither of my parents had been to college so
From his Q & A with Killian Fox for the Guardian:
I was intrigued to learn that you were once a fan of Ayn Rand. For a writer so alert to how capitalism can grind people down, that's unexpected.
It's kind of a sweet story. I was in high school in Chicago, not really doing any work. Neither of my parents had been to college so
Sunday, 26 May 2013
Darden Asbury Pyron
Posted on 01:03 by Unknown
Darden Asbury Pyron is a history professor at Florida International University in Miami and author of a 2000 biography titled Liberace: An American Boy.
Spurred by the release of Behind the Candelabra, a new film about Liberace by director Steven Sodenbergh, Randy Dotinga of the Christian Science Monitor interviewed the biographer. Part of the Q & A:
Q: I'm sure some people think of Liberace as
Spurred by the release of Behind the Candelabra, a new film about Liberace by director Steven Sodenbergh, Randy Dotinga of the Christian Science Monitor interviewed the biographer. Part of the Q & A:
Q: I'm sure some people think of Liberace as
Saturday, 25 May 2013
George Packer
Posted on 01:03 by Unknown
George Packer's new book is The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.
From his Q & A at the publisher's website:
Alex Star: You’ve titled your book The Unwinding. What do you mean by that?
George Packer: It’s a word that a character in the book, Dean Price, once used. He was talking about the way that the economy in his part of the country — rural North Carolina, where tobacco and
From his Q & A at the publisher's website:
Alex Star: You’ve titled your book The Unwinding. What do you mean by that?
George Packer: It’s a word that a character in the book, Dean Price, once used. He was talking about the way that the economy in his part of the country — rural North Carolina, where tobacco and
Friday, 24 May 2013
Dror Mishani
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
D. A. Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, editor and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.
The Missing File is his first novel and the first in a series featuring the police inspector Avraham Avraham.
From his Q & A with Ayelett Shani in Haaretz:
Why do you think crime novels don’t do so well here [in Israel]?
Mishani: What I know for certain is that attempts to
The Missing File is his first novel and the first in a series featuring the police inspector Avraham Avraham.
From his Q & A with Ayelett Shani in Haaretz:
Why do you think crime novels don’t do so well here [in Israel]?
Mishani: What I know for certain is that attempts to
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Sara Wheeler
Posted on 01:03 by Unknown
Sara Wheeler is the author of six books of biography and travel, including Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, and The Magnetic North.
From her Q & A at the Independent:
Choose a favourite author and say why you admire her/him
Willa Cather. She makes the black earth of a vanished Nebraska live again and the very best of her novels slip the
From her Q & A at the Independent:
Choose a favourite author and say why you admire her/him
Willa Cather. She makes the black earth of a vanished Nebraska live again and the very best of her novels slip the
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Erika Robuck
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Erika Robuck is the author of the novels Hemingway’s Girl and the newly released Call Me Zelda.
From Robuck's Q & A with Caroline Leavitt:Why Zelda? And why now? What do you think she has to say to modern readers?
Hemingway actually led me to Zelda. While I researched HEMINGWAY’S GIRL, I read over and over again how much Hemingway disliked Zelda. Knowing that Hemingway didn’t always have the
From Robuck's Q & A with Caroline Leavitt:Why Zelda? And why now? What do you think she has to say to modern readers?
Hemingway actually led me to Zelda. While I researched HEMINGWAY’S GIRL, I read over and over again how much Hemingway disliked Zelda. Knowing that Hemingway didn’t always have the
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Caroline Leavitt
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, which sold to six countries, went into five printings, and was a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick, a Costco "Pennie's Pick" and a NAIBA bestseller. Pictures of You is also a USA Today ebook bestseller and is on the Best Books of 2011 List from the San Francisco Chronicle, Providence Journal, Kirkus Reviews and Bookmarks
Monday, 20 May 2013
Gigi Amateau
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Gigi Amateau is the author of A Certain Strain of Peculiar, Chancey of the Maury River, Claiming Georgia Tate, and 2012's Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel.
From her Q & A with A. B. Westrick:A. B. Westrick: Come August, Come Freedom is the story of Gabriel, the enslaved blacksmith who organized a massive but ultimately unsuccessful rebellion in
From her Q & A with A. B. Westrick:A. B. Westrick: Come August, Come Freedom is the story of Gabriel, the enslaved blacksmith who organized a massive but ultimately unsuccessful rebellion in
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Ayana Mathis
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Ayana Mathis's debut novel is The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. From Mathis's Q & A with Jonathan Lee for Guernica:
Guernica: I don’t think it’s a secret that you’re gay, but I haven’t seen you labelled as a gay writer. Why is that, I wonder? People might say it’s because your novel is about race, and therefore the fact you’re a writer of color comes up. But actually it’s a book about sexuality, too.
Guernica: I don’t think it’s a secret that you’re gay, but I haven’t seen you labelled as a gay writer. Why is that, I wonder? People might say it’s because your novel is about race, and therefore the fact you’re a writer of color comes up. But actually it’s a book about sexuality, too.
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Dan Brown
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Dan Brown's new novel is Inferno.
From his Q & A with Alexandra Alter for the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog:
This is your darkest book to date. It deals with some very grim themes, like the imminent collapse of the human species.
You can’t write about Dante without writing about darkness. Inferno is the most fascinating of the three canticles. As a thriller writer, it was the one I was
From his Q & A with Alexandra Alter for the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog:
This is your darkest book to date. It deals with some very grim themes, like the imminent collapse of the human species.
You can’t write about Dante without writing about darkness. Inferno is the most fascinating of the three canticles. As a thriller writer, it was the one I was
Friday, 17 May 2013
Tricia Fields
Posted on 02:44 by Unknown
Tricia Fields lives in a log cabin on a small farm with her husband and two daughters. She was born in Hawaii but has spent most of her life in small town Indiana, where her husband is an investigator with the state police. A lifelong love of Mexico and the desert southwest lead to her first book, The Territory, which won the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Mystery. Scratchgravel Road, the
Thursday, 16 May 2013
J. Sydney Jones
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
J. Sydney Jones's 2009 novel The Empty Mirror introduced Karl Werthen, a well-off Viennese lawyer and aspiring author who, with real-life criminologist Doktor Hanns Gross, sought to prove that the painter Gustav Klimt was innocent in a series of gruesome local slayings. In the fourth and latest novel in the series, The Keeper of Hands, Werthen, Gross and Werthen’s resourceful spouse, Berthe
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Glenn Frankel
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Glenn Frankel is director of the School of Journalism and G.B. Dealey Regents Professor in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
His new book is The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend.
From the author's Q & A with Deborah Kalb:Q: What first intrigued you about The Searchers, and why did you decide it would make a good subject for a book?
A: I was always intrigued by The
His new book is The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend.
From the author's Q & A with Deborah Kalb:Q: What first intrigued you about The Searchers, and why did you decide it would make a good subject for a book?
A: I was always intrigued by The
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Carter Malkasian
Posted on 01:03 by Unknown
Carter Malkasian spent nearly two years in the Afghan district of Garmser, in war torn Helmand province as a political officer for the US Department of State. For the last decade, he has studied war, and written about it, and worked in war zones, including long stints in Iraq's Al Anbar province. The author of Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare (named by Foreign Affairs as one of the ten books
Monday, 13 May 2013
Reed Farrel Coleman
Posted on 02:04 by Unknown
Reed Farrel Coleman's new Moe Prager novel is Onion Street.
From his Q & A with Thomas Pluck at The Big Thrill:
Hi, Reed. For readers who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Moe Prager, give us the lowdown on him, and what he’s up against in ONION STREET.
Moe is both what you’d expect from a hard-boiled ex-cop turned PI and nothing you would expect from one. He’s a deep thinker and has a
From his Q & A with Thomas Pluck at The Big Thrill:
Hi, Reed. For readers who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Moe Prager, give us the lowdown on him, and what he’s up against in ONION STREET.
Moe is both what you’d expect from a hard-boiled ex-cop turned PI and nothing you would expect from one. He’s a deep thinker and has a
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Joanna Hershon
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Joanna Hershon is the author of Swimming, The Outside of August, and The German Bride. Her writing has appeared in One Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Post Road, the literary anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, and was shortlisted for the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories.
Her new novel is A Dual Inheritance.
From Hershon's Q & A at Details:
Her new novel is A Dual Inheritance.
From Hershon's Q & A at Details:
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Julie Klausner
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Julie Klausner's new book--her first for young adults--is Art Girls Are Easy.
From her Q & A with Claire Zulkey for WBEZ:How hard or easy was it to switch gears into YA writing? What challenges did it pose?
It's completely tough to write a book, period. But switching gears into fiction was absolutely challenging, if only because I had to make sure I wasn't using my own voice the whole time when
From her Q & A with Claire Zulkey for WBEZ:How hard or easy was it to switch gears into YA writing? What challenges did it pose?
It's completely tough to write a book, period. But switching gears into fiction was absolutely challenging, if only because I had to make sure I wasn't using my own voice the whole time when
Friday, 10 May 2013
Charles McCarry
Posted on 01:03 by Unknown
Charles McCarry's new novel is The Shanghai Factor.
From his Q & A with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg for the Wall Street Journal's book blog:
Speakeasy: How did you decide on the plot for this novel?
Charles McCarry: The idea of a dangle—an asset that you dangle in front of the enemy in the hope that he will bite thinking he is doubling somebody when in fact he is being doubled— has been wandering
From his Q & A with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg for the Wall Street Journal's book blog:
Speakeasy: How did you decide on the plot for this novel?
Charles McCarry: The idea of a dangle—an asset that you dangle in front of the enemy in the hope that he will bite thinking he is doubling somebody when in fact he is being doubled— has been wandering
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Douglas Brunt
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Until 2011, Douglas Brunt was CEO of Authentium, Inc., an Internet security company. He now writes full time and is currently working on his second novel. A Philadelphia native, he lives in New York with his wife Megyn Kelly and their two children.
From a Q & A with the author about his debut novel, Ghosts of Manhattan:
Q: This is your debut novel. Can you describe this experience? What was the
From a Q & A with the author about his debut novel, Ghosts of Manhattan:
Q: This is your debut novel. Can you describe this experience? What was the
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Jamaica Kincaid
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Jamaica Kincaid's latest novel is See Now Then.
From her 2012 Q & A with Liesl Schwabe for Publishers Weekly:
In the book, the phrase See Now Then repeats, both gaining and shifting meaning as it does. How much of that reprise comes through revision?
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It’s not spontaneous and it doesn’t have a schedule. You know how some people write
From her 2012 Q & A with Liesl Schwabe for Publishers Weekly:
In the book, the phrase See Now Then repeats, both gaining and shifting meaning as it does. How much of that reprise comes through revision?
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It’s not spontaneous and it doesn’t have a schedule. You know how some people write
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Nathaniel Philbrick
Posted on 04:06 by Unknown
From a Q & A with author Nathaniel Philbrick about his new book, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution:Q: You are the author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, among other books. Each takes a piece of history we all think we know about and brings to life aspects that aren’t part of common lore. In BUNKER HILL you do the same. What piqued your interest in Bunker Hill?
By writing
By writing
Monday, 6 May 2013
James Thompson
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
With his first internationally published novel, Snow Angels, James Thompson proved himself Finland’s best and most popular representative in the rise of Nordic noir. It was selected as one of Booklist’s Best Crime Novel Debuts of the Year and nominated for an Edgar Award, an Anthony Award, and a Strand Critics Award. His novel, Lucifer’s Tears, has received critical acclaim from all quarters,
Sunday, 5 May 2013
Mary Roach
Posted on 03:55 by Unknown
Mary Roach's new book is Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal.
From her Q & A with Molly Driscoll at The Christian Science Monitor:Q: You warn readers in your book when things are coming that are a little unpleasant. If you're discussing these topics at events or book signings, do people get grossed out, or do they know what they're in for?
A: I was at the San Francisco Jewish Community
From her Q & A with Molly Driscoll at The Christian Science Monitor:Q: You warn readers in your book when things are coming that are a little unpleasant. If you're discussing these topics at events or book signings, do people get grossed out, or do they know what they're in for?
A: I was at the San Francisco Jewish Community
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Larry McMurtry
Posted on 05:07 by Unknown
Larry McMurtry is the author of over twenty-five novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award.
From his Q & A with Noah Charney for The Daily Beast:
You’ve long been considered the leading
From his Q & A with Noah Charney for The Daily Beast:
You’ve long been considered the leading
Friday, 3 May 2013
Lisa Black
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Lisa Black spent the five happiest years of her life in a morgue. As a forensic scientist in the Cleveland coroner’s office she analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now she’s a certified latent print examiner and CSI for the Cape Coral Police Department. Her latest
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Peter Rock
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent book is The Shelter Cycle, which concerns the end of the world in Montana in 1990, among other things. His previous novel, My Abandonment, has won an Alex Award, the Utah Book Award, and been published in Germany, Turkey and France. He is also the author of the novels The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, This Is the Place,
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Nathaniel Rich
Posted on 01:33 by Unknown
Nathaniel Rich's new novel is Odds Against Tomorrow.
From his Q & A with Noah Charney at The Daily Beast:
Your new novel, Odds Against Tomorrow, involves probability and mathematics as a driver for the plot. How did you choose that plot mechanism?
“Numbers people” turn to math for the same reasons that readers turn to literature or poetry: for consolation, beauty, mystery, and affirmation. I
From his Q & A with Noah Charney at The Daily Beast:
Your new novel, Odds Against Tomorrow, involves probability and mathematics as a driver for the plot. How did you choose that plot mechanism?
“Numbers people” turn to math for the same reasons that readers turn to literature or poetry: for consolation, beauty, mystery, and affirmation. I
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