Jessica Soffer, author of TOMORROW THERE WILL BE APRICOTS, a satisfying debut about two women adrift in New York, and the ways they help each other (hint: FOOD), picks ‘3 Books That Are More Filling Than Food,’ for NPR Books.
"New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! And Mark Helprin’s new near-epic novel makes it all the more marvelous."
— Alan Cheuse on Mark Helprin’s IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW, available next week.
Too Cool For School: 3 Books On Scandalous Teachers
By Jennifer Miller, author of THE YEAR OF THE GADLFY.
and two of them I worked on: The Mark Inside and Mr. G! Check it out!
I love the summer book listicle season.
**I’m sitting on a beach. I’m reading one of these…**
Listen to Paul Theroux on NPR’s Weekend Edition, talking about THE LOWER RIVER and his own time spent in Africa.
NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ talks to Anthony Shadid’s widow, Nada Bakri, and former colleague at the Washington Post, Rajiv Chandrasekeran, about HOUSE OF STONE, Anthony’s most personal work; about how finding this home, and his family, meant everything to him.
“You can not write to be immortal because you will never know. It’s impossible. Just write as well as you can and don’t speculate about whether you will be Chaucer or Shakespeare.”
Former poet laureate Donald Hall talks with NPR’s Fresh Air about growing old, and the snowy view from his farmhouse window.
(Source: NPR)
Illustrator Lou Beach shares how, bored with Facebook status updates, he rewrote the game. And wrote 420 CHARACTERS.
