“Another gorgeous, brutal masterpiece from a great American writer.” – Kirkus Reviews, starred review. Author Robert Olmstead returns with Savage Country, the gripping story of Elizabeth Coughlin, a widow bankrupted by her husband’s folly and death, who embarks on a buffalo hunt with her estranged and mysterious brother-in-law, Michael. Here’s an excerpt of this powerfulContinue reading

Lisa Ko’s The Leavers was just longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. Here she explains how she came to write this “dazzling debut,” as People called it. The Leavers is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice. .Continue reading

Ah, daffodils. Who among us literary-minded folk is not reminded of William Wordsworth’s dancing daffodils when spotting these golden flowers? As it turns out, their meaning in the Victorian language of flowers is just as joyous — and just as meaningful to the main characters in Stephanie Knipper’s The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin — newContinue reading

  Dear Readers, The reason I write a book is that I think it is the most important thing I can tell a reader at the time. I wrote Young Jane Young because I wanted to explore the reason women don’t seek and achieve higher political office. In the U.S., we, women, are 51 percentContinue reading

William Alexander set out to master the Art of French Speaking in his New York Times bestseller, Flirting with French. Hand in hand with speaking French is eating French food. And cooking French food. Oh, the food — magnifique! In honor of Bastille Day on July 14, here’s an excerpt from Flirting with French aboutContinue reading