You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Following up on her critically-acclaimed debut novel An Unseemly Wife, E.B. Moore’s new release Stones in the Road follows eleven-year-old Joshua from his Amish home in Pennsylvania to the wilds of Colorado and beyond. Christopher Castellani has called Moore’s novel “…an epic yet intimate journey through […]
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You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Lori Ostlund’s debut novel After the Parade follows the progress of ESL instructor Aaron Englund as he builds a new life for himself in San Francisco and reflects on a small-town upbringing in Minnesota. Ostlund’s first collection of stories, The Bigness of the World, received the Flannery […]
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You can find my most recent writing post over at Dead Darlings this month. “What’s at stake here?” Sooner or later every fiction writer fields this question. Often the challenge appears as a single word – STAKES? – scrawled on a novel chapter or short story draft, plus or minus a coffee cup ring, or […]
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You can find my most recent author interview over at Dead Darlings. Jonathan Papernick’s debut novel, The Book of Stone, transports us to pre-9/11 Brooklyn to follow the course of Matthew Stone, a mentally unstable young man who loses a father and enters of a world of religious extremism. According to Dara Horn, “…The Book […]
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On the way to the Muse and the Marketplace conference a couple of Sundays ago, turning onto Beacon Street, I ran into a river of pedestrians aiming west-bound toward Coolidge Corner. Pink, yellow, and baby blue t-shirts. Walk for Hunger, the white badges said. Of course, I thought. Early May in Boston. Walk-a-thon season is […]
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