Daniel Mason’s North Woods follows one house in the woods of New England as it passes through families (with inhabitants both human and not) and endures natural and human history. Mason joins us to talk about how he connected with his setting, writing a novel covering a large timespan, playing with form and more. The […]
The author talks about how she set out to write a story of a family — and discovered she’d created a novel about our obsession with money and inheritance.
As part of our celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Discover Great New Writers, Elliott Holt looks back at an early selection: Jonathan Franzen’s earthquake thriller-meets-love-story.
What’s the most common element in the universe? If you paid attention in school, you might answer hydrogen, but you’d be wrong. The most common element in the universe is hype, and it’s something we will never run out of. Millions of years after mankind goes extinct, an alien species visiting the dead planet Earth […]
Maybe you’re the seventh of twelve, or maybe you’re the first of one; whichever it is, your birth order definitely has an effect on your personality…and, consequently, the stack of paperbacks relaxing on your bedside table. In honor of all those times your little brother borrowed your favorite book and returned it with syrup stains […]