Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her new novel, Romantic Comedy, which begins behind the scenes at a television show similar to Saturday Night Live, where a female comedy writer is gobsmacked that her schlubby straight male... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-20 08:53:29 UTC ]
The latest novels by Curtis Sittenfeld, Jeannette Walls, and Colleen Oakley are among this month's selections by the nation's most influential book clubs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
What is it about campus novels that makes us love them so? The campus has inspired many novelists over the years: Michael Chabon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elif Batuman, Nabokov, to name just a few. Readers love these stories, too; “the campus novel” has become its own literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-02-14 09:53:34 UTC ]
Welcome to our biannual Great Book Preview! We’ve assembled the best books of 2023A (that is, the first half of 2023), including new work from Nicole Chung, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Claire Dederer, Brian Dillon, Samantha Irby, Heidi Julavits, Catherine Lacy, Mario Vargas Llosa, Rebecca Makkai,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2023-01-09 10:30:00 UTC ]
Some exciting spring book news: Random House will publish Curtis Sittenfeld’s seventh novel in April. And as both a Sittenfeld completist and an unabashed rom-com lover (NB: this does not include Netflix rom-coms), I’m very excited by both the novel’s title—Romantic Comedy—and its plot synopsis.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-13 16:02:18 UTC ]
Sittenfeld’s alternate history is the story not of “What Happened” but of “What Could Have Happened.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-18 15:39:14 UTC ]
Emma Straub, Curtis Sittenfeld and Lydia Millet all offer escapes from our current reality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist says that in the run-up to the 2016 election, she began to imagine a life where Clinton ‘made different choices, personally and professionally’Hillary Rodham Clinton recounts, in her memoir Living History, how Bill Clinton “asked me to marry him again, and again, and I always said no”.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-04 12:14:07 UTC ]
This week: Curtis Sittenfeld's story collection, plus the natural history heist of the century. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Beyoncé want to ban the word 'bossy' as disparaging to women. It's a good start, but there's so much more to be done. Here are my top tipsThat growing numbers of girls suffer from issues of self-esteem during adolescence – ones that can be carried over into... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]