It’s a funny thing, this love of writing. For me, it’s a passion that involves an unquenchable thirst for learning coupled with a fascination for the intricacies of expression: a burning desire to find the exact right word.…
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There is a new word in the zeitgeist: Fertility. It appears to be a problem aligned to a socioeconomic level, as middle-class women who put off baby making for careers, who rack up stress out in the cold, hard, competitive world of the workplace, then find it hard to conceive and/or carry a baby to term.…
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A box of ARCs arrived and as I was making a reading pile, this book’s red cover grabbed me. Inside was a letter from the editor, and I immediately took it to the couch and gave it my full attention (the writing whispered of Elliott Holt, more on that in a minute).…
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Back in my MFA days at a midwestern university whose faculty came a bit late to the whole postmodernism thing, I took a contemporary fiction course with a professor who liked to make the claim, during nearly every class, that all works of art were in some way about the making of art.…
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I love it when a publicist knows exactly what I want to read, and just sends it. I told a woman very close to me that I was reading this book, and she laughed, knowing it is at least 180 degrees away from what I normally love.…
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In sports, they say that if you have three of something, you have nothing. Three closers? Three quarterbacks competing for the starting job?…
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I think I’ll blame my parents. My mother was an actress. My father a director. To them, everyone had a STORY.…
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Joyce Carol Oates!!! She is a force to be reckoned with. I haven’t read her for several years but I grew up in Princeton, NJ.…
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If I am writing this and you are reading it, it means that we are both survivors. We are those who remain, for one more day at least as the light fades.…
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[A Life in Books; In Books, a Life] By Josh Hanagarne’s account, the consistent presence of books is the base on which his life finds its stability.…
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Darryl Shelly’s life reads like a page out of Goodfellas, mixed with a juicy dollop of Hollywood glitz, glamor and depravity.…
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Short of selling Elliott Holt soap on a rope, we’re giving away 5 ARC’s of her debut novel, You Are One of Them.…
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So what do I do now? I spent the last two days either on a plane, or with this amazing debut novel.…
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