How Christine Sneed Wrote ‘The Virginity of Famous Men’
Christine Sneed is the faculty director of Northwestern University’s MFA & MA in Creative Writing in Evanston, IL, just north of Chicago.
Author: Lisa Katzenberger
Interview: Why Richard Russo Returned to North Bath in Everybody’s Fool
More than two decades since his breakout hit Nobody’s Fool, Pulitzer-prize winning author Richard Russo has returned to the same set of characters in the run-down mill town of North Bath
A Raw Look at Childbirth: Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
After tackling loneliness in her first novel and teenage sexuality in her second, Pamela Erens flawlessly captures the experience of childbirth in Eleven Hours—the fear, the surprise, the other-worldly pain.
Interview: Matt de la Peña on Diversity in Children’s Literature
For the first time ever, a picture book won the 2016 Newbery Medal for “the most distinguished American children’s book published the previous year.” Also for the first time, a Hispanic writer took home the award—Brooklyn’s Matt de la Peña, author of Last Stop of Market Street. Illustrated by Christian Robinson, it’s the story of an African-American boy and his grandmother finding beauty in their surroundings as they ride a bus through a gritty cityscape.
