In short: Ang Pompano on 'Best New England Crime Stories 2016: Red Dawn' (Q&A)
Today, Hartford Books Examiner extends virtual greetings to Connecticut’s own Ang Pompano. Pompano is a contributor to “Best New England Crime Stories 2016: Red Dawn” (Level Best Books), which was...
View ArticleActor Jesse Eisenberg brings his funny side to the Miami Book Fair
Jesse Eisenberg’s jokes don’t always land. There was that time in July when the actor, walking the red carpet for a movie premiere, compared attending Comic-Con to genocide. Or that time earlier this...
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Jesse Eisenberg’s jokes don’t always land. There was that time in July when the actor, walking the red carpet for a movie premiere, compared attending Comic-Con to genocide. Or that time earlier this...
View ArticleBook Critics Don't Exist To Flatter Your Taste
“Unlike critics who write about film or food or music, book critics are rarely required to engage with popular material,” Jennifer Weiner wrote in The Guardian on Tuesday with blithe confidence. Like...
View Article7 Writerly Books To Read Instead Of Finishing NaNoWriMo
How time flies! It’s nearly a third of the way through NaNoWriMo already, with only a couple weeks left to finish a 50,000-word novel draft. We hope you’re hitting your word counts! But if you aren’t,...
View ArticleGillian Mears, author of The Cat with the Coloured Tail, to write fable, novel
Horses were the passion of Gillian Mears' life, a pounding physical love that she celebrated and mourned in her novel Foal's Bread, which won the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award after many years'...
View ArticleRobert Harris lets go of the toga after three volumes of Cicero’s Rome
London’s Garrick Club was founded by a group of “literary gentlemen” in 1931 as a meeting place for men of “refinement and education”. Today, its clientele of pinstriped suits and off-duty Jeremy...
View Article'Wolves in School' by Brea Behn
Title: "Wolves in School" Author: Brea Behn Publisher: Brea’s Books Publish Date: November 2015 ASIN: B017F6BCEE Michelle Arana: Nowadays, who wants to live in the real world that we all live in?...
View ArticleLaura Tisdall: 'If I only wrote when I felt "inspired", I would probably...
The Echoes author on taking the decision to self-publish, being inspired by JK Rowling and ‘spy fi’ TV shows like Alias and Fringe, and what to do when you get the dreaded writer’s block!...
View ArticleKate Dempsey on The Space Between: poetry beyond words
The title of my debut poetry collection, The Space Between, is taken from a line of my poem, Reaching Agreement. Your lips move but I’m hearing the way you taste the space between your words, phrasing...
View ArticleThe Best Reader Wins!
The winners of the National Book Awards were selected this week following an evening in which all the nominees participated in a reading hosted by New School University. Even though I have no idea...
View ArticleTop 10 wilderness adventures
From The Hobbit to The Moomins, Alexander Yates picks his favourite fictional wildernesses...
View ArticleJenny Diski interview: 'The mediocrity of fiction is really to do with...
The author taken in by Doris Lessing as a teenager, whose work challenges sensitivities, is now busting the cliches of the cancer diary...
View ArticleLennon and Maisy Stella: 'We used the lyrics of the song as the words to the...
Nashville stars, Youtubers and sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella have written their first book In The Waves, but who inspires them? John Green, Veronica Roth, Robert Munsch and music (of course) step...
View ArticleJulie Kagawa: 'We are always growing as writers, getting better with each...
Site member Tashtastic got to interview Julie Kagawa, as the last book in her Iron Fey series, The Iron Warrior, is published...
View ArticlePatrick deWitt interview: ‘Certain writers look down their noses at plot. I...
The author and screenwriter talks about his lucky break in a bar, making readers laugh and kicking genres in the teeth...
View ArticleMy Second Act as a Writer
Fifteen years ago, at the age of 41, I did something that forever changed the trajectory of my personal life. No, I did not leave my brilliant, beautiful wife. Nor did I abandon my legal career with...
View ArticleEdna O’Brien: ‘I was lonely, cut off from the dance of life’
Edna O’Brien, once Ireland’s most scandalous woman, arrives in the lobby of the Merrion Hotel and praises a scent that she traces to an arrangement of flowers on a table. “It’s eucalyptus,” she says...
View Article'Wolves in the City' by Brea Behn
Title: “Wolves in the City” Author: Brea Behn Publisher: Black Rose Writing Publish Date: July 2015 ISBN: 978-1612965529 Michelle Arana: Nowadays, who wants to live in the real world that we all live...
View ArticleLeading literary festival offers insights into the world of Irish publishing
Book reviewing, historical fiction, crime writing, creation of character bios, differences between mystery and suspense and authors’ roles as public performers – these were just some of the topics...
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