Bestselling author Tim Johnston has done it again with his upcoming novel, The Current, centered around a shocking murder and its continued impact on the small Minnesota town where it occurred. In addition to this tour de force novel, Johnston wrote an entertaining essay on the subject of childhood guilt and innocence, which you canContinue reading
Heather Rose, author of the new novel The Museum of Modern Love, shares this essay about the process of writing her award-winning book. • • • The Museum of Modern Love took me eleven years to write. It started back in 2005, when there was a Dutch Masters exhibition in Melbourne, Australia. After taking inContinue reading
Heather Abel, author of The Optimistic Decade—now in paperback—shares this essay about how she came to write her debut novel. • • • “Class of ’36, I guess we did something wrong.” I was in college when I first read that sentence, and its author—my grandmother—had just died. She’d been charismatic and uncompromising, equally criticalContinue reading
In the internationally bestselling and award-winning Woman at 1,000 Degrees, which has been published in fourteen languages, noted Icelandic novelist Hallgrímur Helgason has created a true literary original. In this essay, he explains how he came upon the story — and the fascinating woman — behind it. . . . Being a novelist is aContinue reading
Honored and admired author Robert Olmstead returns with Savage Country, a novel “about America told through its land and its animals and its diverse people and, especially, through the experiences of two vivid, singular, powerful characters,” as Kirkus Reviews raved Here, Robert describes his inspiration for his novel: the strong women who raised him, and theContinue reading
Jim Grimsley on his new book, How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Lessons of a Racist Childhood, which will be published on April 14. I have been watching episodes of Dragnet, the TV series from the late 1960s, a comforting view of the Los Angeles police department that appears, in retrospect, much like propaganda.Continue reading