New celebrity memoirs are silly and serious

Posted on May 18, 2021 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The book-promoting interviews that entered our newsfeeds today have markedly different tones. Sinead O’Connor will release Rememberings on June 1....

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, Memoir, NPR, Pop culture, The New York Times

Linguist keeps it clean in discussing his book on profanity

Posted on May 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

For many people (or at least enough to generate a cliché), Mondays bring out bad attitudes … and thus bad...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Language, Nonfiction, NPR

Former inmate discusses how poetry saved him

Posted on May 15, 2021 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many of us experienced a sense of isolation in the past year-plus, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns....

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Tagged As: Author interview, Memoir, NPR

Stacey Abrams shares her inspiration for "While Justice Sleeps"

Posted on May 11, 2021 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s release day for Stacey Abrams, who is now the published author of a political thriller — While Justice Sleeps...

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Tagged As: Author interview, NPR, Politics

Meet the flight attendant who signed a seven-figure book deal

Posted on May 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Readers with flight anxiety will want to skip this author interview. Those who don’t fear flying — or who never...

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Tagged As: Author interview, The Guardian, Thriller

Michael Lewis's book on the COVID-19 disaster is out

Posted on May 4, 2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The book that none of our Facebook followers asked for has officially hit the shelves. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story,...

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Tagged As: Author interview, coronavirus / COVID-19, Nonfiction, NPR, The New York Times

Author Q&A: Kari Trumbo

Posted on May 4, 2021 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Contemporary romantic suspense and historical romance author Kari Trumbo's photo and website URL.

Today we're interviewing Kari Trumbo, an author of Christian historical and contemporary romance, and romantic suspense.

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Tagged As: Author interview, Romance

James Patterson on writing a novel with a president

Posted on May 1, 2021 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You may know author James Patterson as a fixture on bestseller lists or as one of the most prolific writers...

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Tagged As: Author interview, The Guardian

Author Jhumpa Lahiri on translations -- her own and others'

Posted on April 29, 2021 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Jhumpa Lahiri has a unique relationship to translated literature. She’s seen her novels and short-story collections be brought into a...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Literature in translation, Women in literature

Angie Thomas expects, but doesn't fear, challenges to her new book

Posted on April 27, 2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Angie Thomas takes a pragmatic — yet positive — view about the impact of her writing, in a recent...

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Tagged As: Author interview, Bans and challenges, The Guardian, Young adult literature