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Back to SearchNatashia Deon on THE PERISHING
"I don't remember my dreams a lot. But when I remember them, I stand up and pay attention." Both of Natashia Deon's novels, NAACP Image Award nominee…
4 years, 8 months ago
Louise Erdrich on THE SENTENCE
"I'd always wanted to write a ghost story. And I always wanted to write about what it was like to be haunted, because I feel that so many of us are."…
4 years, 8 months ago
Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman on ROXY
"One of the comments that I've often gotten from parents who say, my son read Scythe, or my daughter read, Unwind, and made me read it, because they …
4 years, 8 months ago
Kal Penn on YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS
"I wanted to tell my story in a way that made you feel like you were having a beer with me. And…even though I delve into things like identity and pol…
4 years, 8 months ago
Gary Shteyngart on OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS
"I'm here to have a dialogue with a person. And if I'm just gonna sit there and look down at my lap, well, speaking profoundly into my lap. That's no…
4 years, 8 months ago
Drew Magary on THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT
"And so, what was to me a relatively — at least in terms of storytelling — a tidy story of me collapsing and having my wife and my co-workers save my…
4 years, 9 months ago
Alice Hoffman on THE BOOK OF MAGIC
"And I had a great, great professor named Albert Guerard when I was starting out, and he said to me, 'Some people will tell you to write what you kno…
4 years, 9 months ago
Joshua Ferris on A CALLING FOR CHARLIE BARNES
"I love it, when, as a reader, I am surprised by the way people behave, you know that you're aghast and shocked and standing back a little bit. And I…
4 years, 9 months ago
Elizabeth Strout on OH WILLIAM!
"I'm so interested in people. I have been fascinated by people since I was just my first memory. I just think people are, for me, they are the most i…
4 years, 9 months ago
Andrea Elliott on INVISIBLE CHILD
"Because for every kid who makes it out, there are thousands more who are just as capable, who don't. And I think we need to shift the conversation a…
4 years, 9 months ago