Audition by Katie Kitamura follows one woman’s daring exploration of identity, life and love. Katie joins us to talk about writing in first person, unreliable narrators, marriage as a narrative tool, writing women and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by […]
Two writers from the Discover Great New Writers program on their influences, the reactions they hope to produce, and the books that compelled them to create their own.
Alice Kaplan traces one of the 20th century’s most influential works from its roots in Albert Camus’ Algerian childhood to its destination as a touchstone for a philosophy and an era. Review by Steven G. Kellman.
This month’s new fiction will be especially pleasing to fans of James L. Haley’s The Shores of Tripoli, Barbara Taylor Bradford’s Cavendon Series, and Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady, all of which receive the sequel treatment with exciting new narratives. More books to give thanks for: In her first novel in 11 years, the […]
Some authors fit the stereotype of artists toiling at their craft in silence. Others just can’t keep their pens to themselves, stirring up trouble by tossing their opinions around on every subject under the sun. Both groups produce some amazing work, but boy is it a lot more fun to read about the second. Nothing […]