Authors are just like any other creative professional in that they tend to find something they’re good at, stick with it, and keep going as long as they can. Some authors do spy novels, for example, or romance novels, or horror novels. But then they some of them get restless, or feel the great call […]
Novels written in diary form feel at once intimate and true. They allow narrators to speak freely, often revealing their cruel or hilarious sides, or to investigate self-doubt in what should be private pages. And we’re all voyeurs at heart: who doesn’t love the idea of discovering a secret diary and digging in? Here are […]
Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette is newly out in paperback, and the cover is emblazoned with reasons you should read it, but the one that sold me is actually on the back, in the author’s bio: “Before turning to fiction, [Semple] wrote for Arrested Development.” Book: Sold.