If you have a jones for author interviews — you want to know what’s new and you want it now — check out the Campaign for the American Reader’s Author Interviews blog. While Author Interviews doesn’t actually do them, it does collect the data on interviewees: to the tune of one per day. As a result, you end up with a rather good kaleidoscope of what’s hot right now. For instance, over the last week, […]
Some readers will have noticed that I’ve had trouble shutting up about Dan Vyleta’s debut novel since I read the book early in 2008. As I said not long ago, Pavel & I is nuanced and practiced and intelligent and brave. And when I talked about the “gritty majesty” of the book in this space earlier this year, here is what I said: Vyleta’s biography alone sets the tone: he holds a Ph.D. in history […]
Victoria Holmes is one of the three writers known as Erin Hunter, a pen name Holmes and fellow children’s authors Kate Carey and Cherith Baldry dreamed up to avoid confusing readers with a platoon of author names on the front of their books. Holmes tells us that two new titles in their popular “Warriors” series were launched in April: Power of Three Book Three: Outcast and the final part of the Graystripe manga trilogy, Warrior’s […]
You could spend some time trying to get a handle on Jim Krusoe: trying to pin him down firmly enough to be able to write about him in a way that those unfamiliar with his work would find illuminating. Sure, you can cover the basics. Cleveland born, Krusoe has lived for many years in Los Angeles where he teaches creative writing, specifically at Antioch University and Santa Monica College. Krusoe founded The Santa Monica Review […]
Today in January Magazine, contributing editor Summer Block interviews Gail Jones, author of 2004’s Sixty Lights and, more recently, Sorry, which opens with the murder of a white anthropologist in Australia. “The attack is witnessed by a white girl and her Aboriginal friend,” writes Block. “The Aboriginal girl takes the blame, while the white girl forgets the traumatic event, an allegory for Australia’s own troubled past concerning “the stolen generations” of Aboriginal children forcibly taken […]
Anyone who knows Barbara Fister even slightly is not in the least surprised to discover that her novels are smart, sophisticated and deeply concerned with the larger world. In many ways, all of those words — smart, sophisticated, concerned — describe the Madison-born and Minnesota-based author perfectly. An academic librarian at a liberal arts college, on her own Web site, Fister says her “research interests are wide, not to say idiosyncratic, but they all have […]
Titian hair. A deceptively sweet smile. Arms akimbo. Mystery writer and journalist Sandra Ruttan manages these disparate things easily, seemingly without contradiction. I say this about Sandra Ruttan the author, but it could all be easily translated to what works about her fiction: Sandra Ruttan looks at things from a connected distance. She assesses dispassionately, beautifully, and with a frighteningly delicate care. And then she brings us along. With her second novel, What Burns Within […]
We join the Texas-based author previously known as Samantha Carter at a beautiful moment in her career: Don’t Hex With Texas (Ballantine Books), the fourth novel in her widely acclaimed Enchanted, Inc. series is appearing in bookstores right now and the reviews that have been heralding the way have been sunny and enthusiastic. Last fall, the first book in the series, Enchanted, Inc., has been optioned for film by Universal’s Strike Entertainment. The Enchanted, Inc. […]
When you meet him he is quiet, articulate, soft-spoken. An emergency physician, he is certainly hard-working: though that just goes with the territory. And then, beginning with his debut novel, 2005’s Pandemic, you read his work and discover unplumbed depths of the type that fuel that very best high tech thrillers. And the type that cause the more gentle souls among us to lose sleep. Though perhaps it is no longer fair to call these […]
A Snapshot of Josh Karp…Born: Chicago, IllinoisResides: Evanston, IllinoisBorn: October 22nd, 1966Web site: Dougkenney.com Please tell us about A Futile and Stupid Gesture.It’s a biography of comedy writer Doug Kenney, set against the backdrop of National Lampoon’s golden era — the 1970s — during which they were instrumental in making comedy dangerous, socially relevant and a very good business. Kenney was kind of the key figure in the comedy revolution of the 1970s that resulted […]
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