Twice in the last week I've done what I used to do a lot, but don't much get to do these days due to a blessedly full writing and personal life: I visited book …
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10 Terrific Quotes from Elizabeth Strout's Fresh Air Interview
May I recommend this interview -- Pulitzer-Prize winner Elizabeth Strout with Terry Gross on Fresh Air -- to anyone who writes, anyone who wants to write, …
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A Bit About Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout's new novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, returns to the mother-daughter turf of her debut, Amy and Isabelle, published a decade and a half ago. Is …
1 great way to celebrate the holidays with your book group
The best way I know of the celebrate the holidays with a book club? My neighborhood book group has been gathering for an annual holiday book swap for as long as …
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Dear Mrs. Wharton, Dear Mr. James – a literary Friendship
On this day in 1900, Henry James first wrote to Edith Wharton, who had been angling to meet him since 1887, when she was a shy 25-year-old. He was moved to …
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In case you want to be jealous…
"A word after a word after a word is power." - Margaret Atwood, from "Spelling" In case you want to be jealous... You know those literary idols you're afraid to …
Signed Copies of Nightingale, Circling the Sun, and The Race for Paris for the asking!
I'm still touring -- in Minneapolis and Chicago this coming week -- but 1st Books will be back in action in just a few weeks. In the meantime, I've gotten …
Ain’t Nothing Like Him Nowhere
Writer Wins Love Lottery Because this is a writing blog, there is a writing angle here—perhaps the most important writing advice I can give anyone—but it's …
Booker Prize Finalist and PEN/Faulkner winner Karen Joy Fowler on Beginning to Write
Lucky all of us who love great fiction: a new edition of Karen Joy Fowler's Black Glass was released yesterday! This terrific short story collection won the …
5 Fabulous Literary Fathers, in Their Own Words
In celebration of Father's Day... You may think you have the best real dad in the world (I certainly do!), but I've pulled together some fictional contenders to …
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