Fernando A. Flores on Violence and Border Fiction
An interview with the author of ‘Tears of the Trufflepig.’
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Laura Lippman: “There’s No Limit on What the Crime Novel Can Do”
An interview with the author of ‘Lady in the Lake.’
The Distance Between Narrative and Real Life
An interview with Peter Rock, author of ‘The Night Swimmers.’
The Unique Tools Of The Artist In A Dying World
An interview with Elvia Wilk about her new novel, “Oval.”
Before ‘The Library Book,’ Susan Orlean Thought She’d Never Write Another
“It was just too big of a commitment. It’s just too hard to write books.”
What Ben Lerner’s ’10:04′ Teaches Us About Failure
Every now and then a book comes along that changes how you think about yourself, the world, even books themselves.Continue Reading
Claire Fuller on ‘Swimming Lessons’ and the Power of the Imagination
We spoke with Claire Fuller about her second book ‘Swimming Lessons,’ her favorite epistolary novels, and the power of the reader’s imagination.
Malka Older’s ‘Infomocracy’ Imagines a New Path for Democracy
Penned by a governance researcher who spent more than a decade working in humanitarian aid and development, this cyberpunk political thriller challenges many of the assumptions we so often take for granted.
POV, Pulse, and Serial Killers: An Interview with Dan Lopez
Oscar Wilde said that life imitates art far more often than art imitates life. This quote comes to mind with Dan Lopez’s new novel, The Show House, which features a serial killer who targets gay men in nightclubs.
‘Last Year’ Explores the Potential of Paradox-free Time Travel
Before there were skyscrapers in Chicago, the city was just a small cluster of buildings sprawled across the Illinois plains. Robert Charles Wilson’s latest science fiction novel, Last Year, gives us a glimpse into that distant Chicago, going as far back as 1876.
