On the off chance you saw “Smith Henderson” and thought, “Who?” — let’s fix that. His is a name you’ll need to know if you’re talking about literary fiction from now on.
Category: Authors In Real Life
So you want to quit your day job? First piece of guidance: “Plan way, way in advance.”
“I want contact with actual people. It is, for me, a large part of what makes life worth living.”
The witty memoir co-written by Bill and Willie Geist may be an obvious choice for a Fathers…
Elizabeth McCracken on Humor, Loss, and the Appeal of Broken Characters: “Life Is Full of Bad Jokes”
Like a solar eclipse, the stories in Thunderstruck align darkness and light so precisely that they overlap to create something magical — you can see the edges of hope around each character’s despair.
We’re thrilled to welcome bestselling author and leading food-thinker Michael Pollan (“food-thinker” is a term…
Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers, takes us on an imagined vacation with some fellow authors from across time. The Mitford sisters get the best bedroom; but Elizabeth Gilbert’s in charge of the map, and Colson Whitehead’s doing the cooking, so it’s all good.
A couple of weeks ago, on a Thursday night, our store was packed — standing…
Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was the pick this month for a…
It’s such fun to discover that someone who’s a master in one field has talents that spill over to another…
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