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Back to SearchBrinda Charry on THE EAST INDIAN
"I have to transport myself, and only then I can transport my reader."
Brinda Charry's novel, The East Indian, transports readers to Colonial Virgini…
3 years, 5 months ago
John Wray on GONE TO THE WOLVES
"It's more than responsibility. It's fear of just sucking — I don't want to write some garbage that people are going to dismiss."
John Wray's new nov…
3 years, 5 months ago
Abraham Verghese on THE COVENANT OF WATER
"I loved that sense of the slow evolution of a community and watching it happen under your eyes."
Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone, retu…
3 years, 5 months ago
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS
"…A big part of the journey with this book is realizing that people's humanity shouldn't be negotiable."
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's debut novel Cha…
3 years, 5 months ago
Double Shot: Christina Sharpe and Ava Chin
These riveting works of nonfiction by two incredible women have powerful narratives on family, race, and the way we get to tell our stories.
Ordinary…
3 years, 5 months ago
David Grann on THE WAGER: A TALE OF SHIPWRECK, MUTINY AND MURDER
"We all shape our stories in some way, we all try to emerge as the hero of them…"
Author of Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann, takes on mutiny …
3 years, 5 months ago
Dennis Lehane on SMALL MERCIES
Dennis Lehane, prolific author for both the page and the screen, returns with Small Mercies, a thriller set against the time of desegregation of publ…
3 years, 5 months ago
Maggie Smith on YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL
"I leave that book feeling less alone, because I've been welcomed into somebody else's humanity, and I feel like they've shared part of themselves wi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Victor LaValle on LONE WOMEN
"All of them, in my mind… were wrestling with the same question, which is — what do I do with either the burden of family or what do I do with the fo…
3 years, 6 months ago
Nick Medina on SISTERS OF THE LOST NATION
"You get to learn a bit about the social issue of Native women and girls going missing and that's really what I hope a lot of people will take away f…
3 years, 6 months ago