Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures
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Last year, I read two amazing books by Julia Holden. She was kind enough to grant me an interview when I contacted her to tell her how much I enjoyed her work, and I’ve just come up for air after writing a bunch of articles about term life insurance, so I thought it was time [...]
INTRO | PART 2 What question are you never, or rarely, asked in interviews, that you really wish people would ask? How would you answer it? Considering that both my novels are set principally in Paris, I’m surprised nobody’s ever asked me for travel advice. I’ve got a lot of opinions – and if somebody [...]
INTRO | PART 1 What are you reading these days? Or, what types of things do you like to read when you have time? I just read Patricia Wood’s Lottery, and I’m in the middle of Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls. Very, very different books, but both quite wonderful. Got tunes? What’s flowing from your headphones [...]
by Philip Pullman There are books that you can read while laying flat on a mattress, and there are books you have to sit up to read. The Amber Spyglass, the final installment in the His Dark Materials trilogy is one of the latter. Despite the fact that I was nursing the cold that wouldn’t [...]
