October 31, 2008 – 12:01 am
I just want want to say how much I loved hearing the stories of your most pathetic Halloweens: the man who answered your request for candy by giving you dead chickens, the yellow body paint that wouldn’t come off, the parents who had you passing out evangelical pamphlets, the small children you terrified in your […]
October 29, 2008 – 12:01 am
People ask me all the time if I’m happy with my agent, and I always tell them he’s remarkable, which is true. But what I tell my agent, who I’m far more honest with, is that 10% of him is a real pain in the ass. The other thing I tell him is that I […]
October 27, 2008 – 12:01 am
I know I don’t normally post until the first Monday, but I’m running a two-part interview, so you get an extra question this month: Tell me about the most pathetic Halloween you can remember. The time you got stood up. The costume gone wrong. The terrible thing that was dropped into your trick-or-treat bag.
For those […]
October 24, 2008 – 8:31 pm
Hey, folks, a quick announcement. The first is that there will be an extra Question of the Month on Monday so I can run my 2-part interview with the best literary agent in New York. Be sure to stop by!
Second thing: on Tuesday, I’ll be part of the Sony Reader marathon, and you can […]
October 10, 2008 – 12:01 am
We have bookshelves throughout our house. And there are books on tabletops, on the corner of the couch, and beside the cereal boxes. But our favorite books typically end up in the living room, on the shelves on either side of the fireplace.
On my side (the shelf on the left) are severely dog-eared paperback […]
October 8, 2008 – 12:01 am
The big reader in my family was my mother; and from the beginning, I coveted her shelves full of D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O’Conner, James Baldwin. Before I was even aware of the ways writing could be categorized, I was steeping myself in literary fiction, and a love of character and phrasing over plot.
It wasn’t […]
October 6, 2008 – 12:01 am
Tell me something about your bookshelf. (Those are my books on the left, by the way. Mr. H’s are on the right.)
Are the books alphabetized, borrowed, stolen, sitting sideways? Is your bookshelf stocked with literary fiction, thrillers, memoirs? And how is it different from your lover’s bookshelf?
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Wednesday, you’ll meet an absolutely fabulous group of bestselling […]
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