JE: My friend Bill Kenower of Author Magazine does an excellent series of interviews with touring writers in conjunction with Third Place Books in Seattle, one of the great indie bookstores anywhere. Chris Cleave (he of Little Bee) rolled through our town recently. While I haven’t read Little Bee yet, I totally dug Chris Cleave’s 2005 debut, Incendiary, which was given to me on my wedding day by none other than (name drop alert!) Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam. In retrospect, I kind of think Stoney was just showing me the purchases he’d made at Eagle Harbor Books prior to the wedding, and it being my big day (well, Lauren’s too), I just commandeered Incendiary, along with MacKenzie Bezos’ debut, The Testing of Luther Albright, and one other book I can’t remember. I pretty much just fleeced Gossard for everything he had on his person. And I’m glad I did, because it was my introduction to Chris Cleave.
Here’s Cleave talking with Bill Kenower:
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