Kevin Wilson’s first novel, “The Family Fang,” sounds like a proud descendant of the Sycamores in Kaufman and Hart’s “You Can’t Take it With You” It’s a delightfully odd story about the adult children of a pair of avant-garde performance artists
The author reads from and discusses “The Long Song,” her most recent novel (and a finalist for last year’s Man Booker Prize). A book signing follows.
A year on from the Deepwater catastrophe, the Guardian newspaper in the UK asked eight authors, from Tim Gautreaux to China Miéville, to tackle the subject of oil in fiction. Beginning the series is Rose Tremain with her story, Captive.
First-time novelists make up half the shortlist for the 2011 Orange prize for fiction, indicating “the rude health of women’s writing”, according to this year’s chair of judges Bettany Hughes. The list includes novels that tackle strikingly difficult subjects
When he died in 2008, David Foster Wallace left behind hundreds of pages of an unfinished novel. His editor Michael Pietsch explains how he pieced the manuscript together.
Please join TNVR in congratulating last year’s fiction award winner Roberto “James Christiano on the publication of his new novella Sapphire and Ruby. Think Tristan and Isolde meet The Princess Diaries in this dramedy of mythic proportions. The opening price is a mere 99 cents. When was the last time you had a good read [...]
Former NOVA instructor Richard Bausch is one of the nominess for his collection “Something is Out There: Stories”. ABOUT THIS BOOK From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short-story writer, the author of 2008’s universally acclaimed novel Peace (“A brilliant one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat” —The New York Times), eleven indelible [...]
Ron Tanner interviewed in the Baltimore City Paper.
