“I would say that reading Morrison over the course of my life as a fiction writer has given me the courage of my artistic convictions.” @janeciab.bsky.social talks to Namwali Serpell about engaging with Toni Morrison as both a reader and a critic.
ICYMI here’s my @literaryhub.bsky.social conversation with inventive empathetic author George Saunders re his dazzling new novel Vigil,
Happy launch day to George Saunders! Here’s our @literaryhub.bsky.social conversation about Vigil, revising, finding a novel’s ending, & the afterlife.
ICYMI
“In the publicly traded world of Netflix and the breathless business reporting that follows it around, the growing success of arthouses and revival houses is an inconvenience best ignored.” —A.S. Hamrah
@janeciab.bsky.social talks to debut author Lauren Rothery about her novel, Television.
“The whole skirmish is obscuring the insides of both collections—which AI covers tend to do. But both authors have been quick to distinguish form from content.”
After six rounds of voting, you’ve finally chosen Literary Twitter’s greatest icon! Congratulations to Joyce Carol Oates.
@janeciab.bsky.social talks to Iida Turpenen, the author Of Beasts Of The Sea, about exploring our relationship with the natural world through fiction.
@janeciab.bsky.social talks to Olivia Laing about fictionalizing cinematic icons Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
@janeciab.bsky.social talks to Susan Straight about chronicling COVID in literature: “I stood at the gate and listened to my neighbors and the traveler nurses. Their backpacks were their lives, and their camaraderie.”
The Wayfarer is set in Polynesia 1k years ago, filled with fascinating characters, animals, birds, celestial navigators. Utterly captivating!
The Wayfarer is set in Polynesia 1k years ago, filled with fascinating characters, animals, birds, celestial navigators. Utterly captivating!
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@janeciab.bsky.social talks to award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist Quan Barry about writing a horror story set in Antarctica.
Quan Barry, re her new novel @literaryhub.bsky.social: "...I’m really an instinctual writer. I don’t have a scholarly bone in my body, i.e., nothing in me vibes with literary analysis or criticism. At its heart, my book is a novel about memory." @groveatlantic lithub.com/quan-barry-o...
Flashback to 2019, Gregg Barrios and I welcoming #tommyorange to @bookcritics awards ceremony, when he received the NBCC John Leonard award for best first book for #therethere Today he's honored by the @macarthur.foundation with a MacArthur Fellow grant. More books TK! (Link in comments.)
And how an AI hallucination inspired the newest story in his collection…the last in the book.
Sasha Bonét, whose new memoir, “The Waterbearers,” traces the lives of her mother and grandmother, discusses four other books that examine complex mothers.
Happy publication day to @angelaflournoy.bsky.social Her beautifully crafted new novel, The Wilderness, ranges from 2008 to 2027, revealing moments from ecstatic & heart breaking, & the value of friendship.
“I think precocious children in fiction can be pretentious. But what are you gonna do? Write about a dumb one?” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @shteyngart.bsky.social.
“Love and toxicity are hardly unfamiliar bedfellows.” Hal Ebbott tells @janeciab.bsky.social about writing a novel of male friendship.
Book covers for MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai-Chu (translated by Jacqueline Leung), HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS by Anita Felicelli, and THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by Marguerite Sheffer
Lovely time at the Bay Area Book Fest. Thanks to @janeciab.bsky.social for hosting and so great to speak with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai-Chu, and @jacqlyy.bsky.social about spec fic! Check out their weird and wonderful books, HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and MENDING BODIES
Poster for the session described in the post: "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" at the Bay Area Book Fest, Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Sunday June 1 at 12:30 pm
Bay Area! I'm going to be IN you May 30-June 3 for the Bay Area Book Festival
On the panel "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai Chu, @jacqlyy.bsky.social, moderated by @janeciab.bsky.social 12:30 Sunday, June 1
www.baybookfest.org/session/stor...
🌿Please join us this Sat 5/17 @ LitCamp's #reading at Sebastopol's #Litcrawl when 15 #writers-- including me--share short takes on a having a super bad attitude! 5pm, 186 N. Main Street. FREE. It'd be great to see you! 💜
#writer #writing #books
Looking forward to this @baybookfest.bsky.social speculative fiction conversation!
Dear friends, we've launch a change to the way we offer grants to underrepresented writers at @pageonem.bsky.social. I hope you'll read and share with your colleagues and writers. Thanks!
“The most interesting fiction, to me, contains this element of strangeness, whether it’s set in the real world or an alternative one.” @janeciab.bsky.social interviews @karenebender.bsky.social.
My @literaryhub.bsky.social conversation with award winning short story author @karenebender.bsky.social re: her new collection, The Words of Dr L and Other Stories, just our from Counterpoint Press.
