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Beth Golay recently spoke with Juliet Grapes about her new novel, "The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia." The book is a mystery packed with intricate family secrets, interconnected family trees, danger, and vivid country-Italian culture.
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In Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter, an Irish immigrant living in Butte, Montana, falls in love with another man’s mail order bride.
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When writing her novel, Songs in Ursa Major, Emma Brodie was inspired when she learned about the relationship between Joni Mitchell and James Taylor.Her…
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The merger between Manhattan & Queens County in 1898 was known as The Great Mistake. It’s also the title of a new novel by Jonathan Lee. This work of…
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Freddy Otash is in Purgatory. Literally… literarily. In James Ellroy’s novel, Widespread Panic, the corrupt cop turned sleazy private eye is in Purgatory…
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258 weeks. That number has probably changed since I spoke with author Jennifer Weiner, but at the time of this interview, 258 weeks was the amount of time…
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After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he saw with greater clarity the rural-urban divide overtaking the national conversation. I recently spoke…
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Zakiya Dalila Harris has written a thriller set in the publishing industry. I know, words you never expect to hear in the same sentence. But her novel,…
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Who Is Maud Dixon? is a tale of literary identity theft. And that’s about all I can tell you.When I spoke with Alexandra Andrews about her novel, I…
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When you hear the name “John Green” you might think of him as a Vlogbrother, with his brother Hank. Or you might recall that he wrote the book The Fault…
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Joan Silber is the author of nine works of fiction, including Improvement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.Silber is known…
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Maggie Shipstead’s novel Great Circle tells the story of two women who lived nearly a century apart—a daredevil aviator and a recently shamed Hollywood…