Fiction Archive |
Mohsin Hamid: The Most Important Novelist Now Writing? - Curtis Sittenfeld was asked: Is there a book you wish you had written? Her reply: “I love Mohsin Hamid’s novels --- “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “How to Get Filthy Rich in
My daughter’s summer reading - My daughter and her mother are off to Miami for a week. In Helen’s bag are 4 books. This is a first. Helen doesn’t like to read books. In part because I write
My Lady of the Bog - The book begins like this: A peat-digger found her, three-and-a half feet deep in the bog, lying on her back, staring up at the heavens; though this was not revealed
My Mrs. Brown - When I met Billy Norwich, all those years ago, I thought: He’s much too nice to be doing that job. I thought that about his next job, and the next,
My Name Is Asher Lev - My name is Asher Lev, the Asher Lev, about whom you have read in newspapers and magazines, about whom you talk so much at your dinner affairs and cocktail parties,
My Name Is Lucy Barton - Laura Linney is doing "Lucy Barton" as a one-woman show in New York. It's a limited run, ending February 29. The New York Times was giddy with praise: "We’re grateful
My Notorious Life: A Novel - “My Notorious Life: A Novel” is everything I say I don't want. 434 pages. Set in the 19th century. Told in the first person, in 19th century speech. Based, in
My novel: Feel me, read me, tell me, heal me - “The most beautiful woman in the world is a woman reading a book.” I wrote that. It’s the first line of my novel, which I’ve been writing as long as I’ve been
Nadja on Nadja - Jean Rhys --- the author of the cult favorite, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie --- died in 1979. But looking deep into the life of a troubled woman didn’t die with
Ninety-two in the Shade - Here’s a fun fact: Thomas McGuane is the first American novelist to adapt his book for the movies --- and then direct the film. Even more unlikely fact: Though McGuane was
Norman Mailer - It was the Spring of 1967, a Saturday night in Harvard Square, and Norman Mailer was exceedingly happy. And as Mailer drove his ancient
Now it’s official: The New York Times praises “JFK and Mary Meyer” - What are the odds that two writers publish books about the same subject in the same form at the same time? Tiny. But it happened. And it happened because of
Number the Stars - Hanukkah 2021 occurs in the shadow of an alarming expression of ignorance of 20th century history. From the Guardian: Almost two-thirds of young American adults do not know that 6 million
One Day - Do I feel stupid. I’ve just devoured a novel that was published almost a year ago. And not in the middle of the night during a media meltdown --- in its
One Sunday Morning - If Edith Wharton --- the eternal queen of the reading group set --- were alive and writing now, who would she be? Dominick Dunne is the first novelist who comes
Opening Belle - SMALL WORLD: Maureen Sherry, author of "Opening Belle," wrote one of the three books that I was able to read all the way to the end to The Small Person
Out Stealing Horses - I've had this book for two years. Every once in a while, I've picked it up, but never for long. I can't say why. Certainly not the length, for the
Paint It Black - A mutual friend said we'd like one another, so when Janet Fitch came to New York shortly before the publication of her first novel, I went
Pardon the Ravens - When I met Alan Hruska, the law was far behind him. Very far --- I know him as a novelist and film director. Were you to meet him, you’d never
Paris: A Reading List - Mission to Paris The first paragraph of Alan Furst’s novel should convince you: In Paris, the evenings of September are sometimes warm, excessively gentle, and, in the magic particular to that city,
