Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to the author of The Margot Affair (out now in paperback), Sanaë Lemoine. * Book Marks: Favorite re-read? Sanaë Lemoine: These two short stories by Lydia Davis: “The Mother” for its delightful darkness […]
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What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us […]
Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to the author of Topics of Conversation (out now in paperback), Miranda Popkey. * Book Marks: Favorite re-read? Miranda Popkey: Connie Willis’s To Say Nothing of the Dog: future Oxford, time traveling historians, ridiculous Victorians—nothing […]
Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to the author of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (out now in paperback), Robert Kolker. * Book Marks: First book you remember loving? Robert Kolker: Shout!: The Beatles in […]
I’m going to assume that this is going to be the longest March we’ve ever had. Sure, the calendars will say there are 31 days, but we all know the truth. It’s been March, since…well, since last March. (I think it might finally end soon, though. I think this time we might get an April.) Fortunately, […]
Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen. * Book Marks: What book do you think your book is most in conversation with? Viet Thanh Nguyen: Ralph […]
Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to the author of Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land, Noé Álvarez. * Book Marks: First book you remember loving? Noé Álvarez: Bless Me, Ultima. Pure magic for me. […]
Is there anything more thrilling than digging into a just-released book by an admired author? In Context is an essay series in which critic Lori Feathers looks at the latest work of fiction by an established writer within the context of their overall body of work. Lori explores her subject’s oeuvre by identifying the writer’s themes and cultural […]
Welcome to the Book Marks Questionnaire, where we ask authors questions about the books that have shaped them. This week, we spoke to the author of An Orange, Ted Dodson. * Book Marks: First book you remember loving? Ted Dodson: I remember a charmed, school-less afternoon around eight or nine years old, lying on the […]
Octavia E. Butler, beloved Sci-Fi titan and Afrofurturism pioneer, died on this day in 2006. Thirteen years previous she had published perhaps her most iconic (and certainly most eerily prescient) novel: Parable of the Sower. Set in 2024 in an America ravaged by climate change, wealth inequality, and corporate greed, the novel tells the story […]