The much-acclaimed Irish author of Small Things Like These on her quietly devastating new story and why George Saunders wouldn’t read it aloud for a podcastClaire Keegan’s five books to date run to just 700 pages and some 140,000 words. “I love to see prose being written economically,” she tells... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-09-02 17:00:10 UTC ]
Interviews Sonia Patel writes out of her experience as a first-generation Indian-American born in New York and raised in Hawaii, an experience lushly and brilliantly explored in her debut novel, Rani Patel in Full Effect. Rani was a finalist for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-09-08 13:52:01 UTC ]
Philip Jones on how things happen in bookshops that algorithms have not yet replaced. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cover blurbs aren't reviews, they're advertisements that offer no space for balanced, nuanced positivityRecently I was at a literature festival, being interviewed by a man who hadn't had the chance to read my novel. It was fine. These things happen and we muddle through.Unable to draw upon the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]