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On the Rez: Jim Northrup
While it seems that everyone else at the Black Bear Casino in rural Carlton County, Minn., has come to play the slots, Jim Northrup and I are meeting there to talk about "Dirty Copper," his forthcoming novel, slated for release in June from Fulcrum Publishing.
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An International Life In Essays and Fiction: Valeria Luiselli
As Valeria Luiselli describes her peripatetic childhood, it’s easy to see why themes of absence and loss pervade her essay collection, "Sidewalks," and her first novel, "Faces in the Crowd," which Coffee House Press will publish simultaneously in May.
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Telling It Like It Is: Roz Chast
Roz Chast is grasping for a word, her hands raised as if to catch it between her palms, as she tries to describe what it felt like to have finished her new book, "Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" (Bloomsbury, May).
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How the Story Comes Together: Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr's second novel, "All the Light We Cannot See," has its origins in an overheard conversation, current events, travel, and an old Sears catalog.
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Summer Blues: Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
The "Skim" co-creators release the new YA graphic novel "This One Summer."
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Close Encounters: Barbara Ehrenreich
In her 19th book, "Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth About Everything," Barbara Ehrenreich uses her skills as a reporter and researcher to address the concerns of her younger self and investigate the whys of human existence.
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Square Books’ Lisa Howorth’s Fiction Debut
The co-founder of the iconic Square Books in Oxford, Miss., is on the other end of the book now: Bloomsbury is publisher her debut novel in June.
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True Grit: Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma’s debut novel, "The Obedient Father" (FSG), published in 2000, won him a PEN/Hemingway Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a reputation as a new voice in fiction.
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All Roads Lead to Rome? Francesca Marciano
Francesca Marciano is living in Rome... for now.
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Southern Comfort: Zoe Fishman
Writing the stories only she can tell is a motivating force for Zoe Fishman. "My books have been, for better or worse, pretty autobiographical," she says. Her third novel, "Driving Lessons," being published by HarperCollins in April is about leaving a big city and moving down south, and she confirms it was definitely taken from her life.
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War Is Hell: Phil Klay
Phil Klay graduated from Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., in 2005.
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Prolific and Profound: Anne Perry
Anne Perry works at her craft 12 hours a day, six days a week (she takes Sundays off), year in and year out.
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A Woman of Her Time: Tessa Hadley
Stella, the main character of Tessa Hadley’s new novel, "Clever Girl," is an unusual female protagonist in fiction; her intelligence can be destructive and she questions and critiques to a maddening point. Hadley stresses that she is very different from Stella; she’s not as “brave,” as she puts it.
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Frenchie: Greg Marchand
When Greg Marchand began working in the London restaurant Fifteen, it’s owner, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver dubbed him “Frenchie” because he was the only French person in the kitchen. The name stuck, and now it graces Marchand’s Paris restaurant, as well as his other endeavors: a wine bar, Frenchie to Go, and this April, his first cookbook, "Frenchie," published in the U.S. this April by Artisan.
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Infinitely Strange Day-to-Day Life: Peter Matthiessen
"In Paradise" might seem to be an odd, perhaps even an offensive, title for a book set in a concentration camp.
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YA Novelist E. Lockhart’s Sleight of Hand
In E. Lochart's new YA novel, "We Were Liars," something has happened to her narrator, Cady.
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Finding a Home for ‘Red Light Properties’: Dan Goldman
It’s hard to reach an audience when you’re always one step ahead of it. Graphic novelist Dan Goldman found that out the hard way, as he struggled to market his graphic novel "Red Light Properties," as a webcomic and an e-book, before he finally gave up on his dream of a career in comics.
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Anticipated Debuts: First Fiction 2014
“Write what you know.” That old adage worked for this spring’s crop of new fiction writers, who draw on their own experience for their literary debuts.
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First Fiction 2014: Yale Dean Turned Modern Romance Writer - Susan Rieger
Susan Rieger does not have an M.F.A.; rather her first book comes after a successful legal career that included teaching stints at Yale (where she was also a dean) and Harvard. This experience informs The Divorce Papers, an epistolary novel written in memos that PW called “clever and funny” in a starred review. The book will be released in March by Crown.
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First Fiction 2014: Fame in the Heartland - Nickolas Butler
When Nickolas Butler was attending the University of Iowa’s M.F.A. program, he commuted from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, where his wife and son lived, to Iowa City once a week.
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