Georgina Harding, Author of Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlisted Painter of Silence (VIDEO)
Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding's third novel -- recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction -- is set in Romania in the early fifties ...
Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding's third novel -- recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction -- is set in Romania in the early fifties ...
Mark Bazer | Posted 05.16.2012
In my chat with Klosterman, he expounds on the subjects he writes about often -- music, sports -- while tackling the question of whether cavemen were, in fact, the most interesting people ever.
Teddy Wayne | Posted 04.30.2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk time-warps back to the excesses of the Bush administration in following the titular protagonist, and the seven surviving members of Bravo Squad, for one afternoon as they receive a heroes' welcome during the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day football game.
Jennifer Handford | Posted 04.23.2012
At this moment in time, I'm an author, a job title as inspired and dreamy as a veterinarian, fire fighter, plumber, or Dolly Madison truck driver.
Alma Katsu | Posted 05.15.2012
If the phenomenal demand for Fifty Shades of Grey tells us anything, it tells us that female readers actually do want real sex in their books and they'll buy it if they know it's in there.
Mary Pauline Lowry | Posted 03.25.2012
Often beautiful, often sad, The Rhythm of Leaves illuminates the way that both war and blind patriotism can cause lasting and irrevocable harm. And Murry Taylor, a man unafraid to take on new challenges, has proven himself a success yet again.
Warren Adler | Posted 03.19.2012
Nevertheless, the technology addiction cannot be ignored as a competitor to reading. Indeed, some prognosticators may be right in citing the eventual rise of the tablet as a device of choice for everything under the techie sun, including reading.
Anna Solomon | Posted 03.11.2012
My novel, The Little Bride, begins in a basement in Odessa, where 16-year-old maidservant Minna Losk is being given her "Look" - an examination to see if she's sufficiently "fit" (i.e., "virginal") to become a mail-order bride to America.
Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 02.07.2012
Sara Paretsky is a game-changer. In 1982, Sara came out with her first V. I. Warshawski novel, Indemnity Only, now celebrating its 30th year in print...
Posted 12.04.2011
I met him in my sister's garden in Enniskerry. That is where I saw him first. There was nothing fated about it, though I add in the late summer light ...
Entertainment Weekly | Stephan Lee | Posted 12.03.2011
Rapper and mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is trying his hand at writing for teens and doing good at the same time. Jackson’s partially autobiogr...
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.27.2011
Fans of action fiction, Japanese philosophy, and martial arts, would do well to pick up a copy of this book, and through the safety and insights within its pages, be both challenged and entertained.
J. L. Morin | Posted 10.24.2011
People around the globe are celebrating today's International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition and the day that slavery became illegal in the Western world.
Laura Dave | Posted 08.09.2011
One of my favorite quotes about traveling is by Susan Sontag. Sontag said, "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 07.12.2011
After handshakes and photographs with his lingering admirers, Albert Brooks followed his publicist into a closet-size room deep within the Barnes & No...
nytimes.com | JANET MASLIN | Posted 07.01.2011
In his most recent film, "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World," Albert Brooks can be seen as a stand-up comic trying to entertain an audience in In...
Telegraph | 12:02PM BST 01 Apr 2011 | Posted 06.01.2011
My mother has a lot to forgive me for. What started as a little joke -- a blog I wrote from the perspective of a made up 53-year-old Surrey housewife ...
Jenny Shank | Posted 05.25.2011
Writing the Great American Novel seemed out of the question. So instead I set out to write the Decent Denver Novel. Why Denver, you ask? Why not Denver, I say.
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
Featuring a protagonist who is simultaneously villain and victim, Horns seeks to revisit the concept of the hero -- can a hero be someone who does something truly monstrous?
Kelpie Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011
In our guts, we all know that fossil fuels can't last forever. What will we do with the knowledge that we are standing on an energy cliff?
Brian Gresko | Posted 05.25.2011
Karen Russell -- a rising star in the literary world -- speaks about her writing process and the trials and tribulations she encountered when writing her debut novel Swamplandia!
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011
During the dark ages of technology -- this would be 1984 or so -- I found myself lucky enough to go to the first-ever Microsoft conference on CD-ROM, ...
Mark Bazer | Posted 05.25.2011
Novelist Kevin Guilfoile premiered the "trailer" to his new book, The Thousand, on The Interview Show at The Hideout.
USA Today | Carol Memmott | Posted 05.25.2011
On Oct. 6, the series will be released for the first time as e-books; paperback editions will be reissued with new covers next spring; and on March 29...
Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 05.25.2011
I tried to resist writing this -- especially after my plea against categorizing authors. Plus, so many of us hide our age in this world of never-get-...
Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2012