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he drives. because he always drives. he drives the car his mother bought him for christmas, two years ago. i know the way that he drives as well as i know the roads behind my childhood home. the winding, long winded roads built for speed and sad songs that play on loop. the roads that…
The name Éric Rohmer conjures up, for fans of French New Wave cinema, images of lush lawns and beautiful young people, the sounds of their halfhearted flirtations and of waves crashing against sand. His legacy as a filmmaker is built on a sixty-year career that mixed these hallmark elements with a candid visual style and…
Where do books come from? Maybe from puddles. Or from livery drivers sent to transport you to an undisclosed destination. They come from dark places and light places — and often they arrive in disguise although you are certain you are expecting them.
Rickey Fayne’s debut novel The Devil Three Times (Little, Brown and Company) is an ambitious and expansive tale. Spanning continents and incorporating the voices of eight generations of the Laurent family who all tell their own stories of love, struggle, and temptation, Fayne’s novel is a multigenerational transatlantic tale that takes place across centuries as…
What drives a narrative, the author or the story’s inspiration? That’s one question absurdist-realist Indonesian writer Budi Darma explores in Olenka, a novel of literary obsession translated into English for the first time by Tiffany Tsao. While raising a classic question about the nature of fiction writing, Olenka suggests that the work of the fiction…
With a new job and a busy household, I needed a place where I could disappear into a manuscript for a few uninterrupted days, and I found it at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
The Crossing of the Boars is the seventh novel from Zhang Guixing who, as a Mahua writer, is an ethnic Malaysian writing in Chinese. Zhang’s rich novel takes place in a fictional village called Krokop on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, centered on the period of the Japanese invasion of the island during World…
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they would like. This week, Donna Miscolta writes about Ofelia and Norma from Regal House. + I was a science major in college. I won’t explain why. Suffice it to say it was a case…