We’re Not Past That Now: An Interview with Joan Dempsey
Joan Dempsey’s debut novel This Is How It Begins (She Writes Press, 2017) is a powerful and moving exploration of a flashpoint in contemporary America: the organized efforts of the Christian right to...
View ArticleMagical Realism on the Road: An Interview with Maryl Jo Fox
Clara at the Edge, Maryl Jo Fox’s debut novel, is the most unusual road novel you are likely to encounter. The heroine, Clara Breckenridge, is 73 and has a lot to settle before she dies. She is...
View ArticleAn Interview with Jessica Levine
Jessica Levine and I share a publisher, She Writes Press, and an agent, April Eberhardt. In the months leading up to the publication of my own novel, I remember noticing her first book, The Geometry of...
View ArticleAn Interview with Mary Fleming
In her engaging second novel, The Art of Regret—released today by She Writes Press—Mary Fleming takes the reader to Paris, where American expatriate Trevor McFarquhar negotiates family secrets and...
View ArticleTelling a Larger Truth: An Interview with Linda Kass
“I am a first-generation American, the child of Holocaust survivors,” Linda Kass tells me as we begin our conversation. “There is quite a bit of World War II in my DNA.” Indeed, World War II provides a...
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