“… this was a book about beauty, and I wanted it to be very honest.” In Mona Awad’s Rouge, gothic family-drama meets fairy tale (with a hint of horror) as a young woman navigates the world of youth and beauty in the aftermath of her mother’s death. Awad joins us to talk about how her obsession […]
When we were thinking about the quintessential summer post, we thought about how many people enjoy a cocktail on summer nights with their friends and wondered, “how great would it be to pair great cocktails with fantastic books?” And that’s how this post was born. We talked to Toby Maloney about some of his brilliant cocktails and had fun pairing them up with some books to enjoy while you wet your whistle. He gave us fruity, spicy, refreshing, smoky, and spooky options which helped us come up with books for every reader, particularly lovers of mystery, romance, dramas laden with secrets, and horror.
What’s scarier: seeing something jump out at you, or knowing that it could, and imagining how and when? My bet’s on the latter. Anticipatory fear is the worst. As such, I always find the book version of a spooky tale more frightening than a film or TV show, because my mind will conjure up horrors no special […]
When you hear the word adaptation in reference to novels, you tend to think of big-budget TV series like HBO’s Game of Thrones or Starz’s Outlander, or big-budget films like World War Z. But in recent years, there’s been a surge in novels adapted for the Broadway stage. In a modern theater atmosphere where a […]
Donna Tartt might be one of America’s most mysterious contemporary fiction writers. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author rarely gives interviews, and when she does, she speaks little of her interests or routines. She also dislikes book tours, believing they detract from the very thing they’re meant to promote. She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, just a Sunday afternoon’s drive […]
