Karen Brown's Pins and Needles received AWP’s Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and her stories have been included in Best American Short Stories and The …
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Tamar Cohen: It Just Got Personal…
Todays guest author, Tamar Cohen, comes from London, and is the author of The Mistress’s Revenge. She has published nine non-fiction titles and written for The …
Camille Noe Pagán: Would I Steal these Scenes?
This week I get to do one of the things I most enjoy doing on 1st Books: Introduce a debut author. Camille Noe Pagán’s first novel, The Art of Forgetting, comes …
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Kelly O'Connor McNees: First I Was a Quitter
With National Poetry Month now over, it's back to our regularly scheduled Wednesday programming on 1st Books - though I am always up for hosting poetry …
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Sara J. Henry: Learning to …
I first read pages of Sara J. Henry's debut novel more than ten years ago, well before I'd sold my own first novel. She is one of the most persistent writers …
Jamie Ford: Call in Sick More Often
I'm absolutely delighted to host fellow Ballantine author Jamie Ford this week. I had the great fortune to get an advanced copy of his first novel, The Hotel on …
