I'm just thrilled this week to welcome Eleanor Brown, author of Weird Sisters, to 1st Books (and very excited we'll be participating in the Gaithersburg Book …
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Guest Authors
Caroline Leavitt: The Story of My Start
I've been a big fan of Caroline Leavitt's novels since I met her years ago on Readerville.com. Her earlier novels - she's published eight now! - were wonderful. …
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Susan Straight: People Who Stay
I'm delighted this week to host Susan Straight, whose new novel, Take One Candle Light a Room, is just out from Random House. Susan was a National Book Award …
Diane Lockward: on poetry
I had such fun hosting poets here on 1st Books for National Poetry Month that I've decided to continue the occasional Poetry Tuesday throughout the year. …
Tatjana Soli: Silencing the Voices of No
Can I gush about a book here for a moment? And its author? I first met Tatjana Soli at the Sewanee Writers Conference almost six years ago now, on the bus up …
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez: Connecting
I'm absolutely delighted to have Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the author of the just-released Wench, as this week's guest author. Randall Kenan, author of A Visitation …
Janet Skeslien Charles: Open to Experiences
My guest this week, Janet Skeslien Charles, is a novelist whose debut, Moonlight in Odessa, is just out from Bloomsbury. It was chosen as one of ten promising …
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Kathryn Ma: All That Work
My guest author this week, Kathryn Ma, is the author of All That Work and Still No Boys, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She's the first Asian American …
Dan Chaon: Hungry Heart
With apologies for this long introduction but ... well, this is Dan Chaon we're talking about. Dan is an amazingly talented writer: his story collection, Among …
Jane Austen: Fourteen Years of Rejection
I just read a wonderful piece in The Literary Review that says, in the context of a review of a new book about Jane Austen: "In 1797, Thomas Cadell made one of …
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