CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE

New York Times Bestselling novelist, screenwriter, editor, namer, critic, movie addict and chocoholic.

Thursday, November 17, 2022

A brave book of love and understanding: A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays

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  Listen up because this gorgeous, luminous, tear-your-heart-out and patch-it-together book is a love letter to the author’s brave transgend...

Stephen Policoff talks about Dangerous Blues, his "kind of a ghost story," being haunted and disorganized, and so much more.

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Stephen Policoff's Dangerous Blues has been called "kind of a ghost story." It's about love and death and one man and his ...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

High protein vegan chocolate anyone? Meet my new fave company: Eating Evolved Chocolate + Protein!

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Adventures in Veganland! Yep, yep. I am mostly vegan. I have been a vegetarian since I was in my twenties—and for a simple reason. My first ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Living on a carless island with her poet father. Molested at six. A former stripper. A former prostitute. And one of the most moving and honest memoir writers. Hannah Sward talks about STRIP.

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Abandoned by her mother, living with her poet father on an island with no cars, and molested at six, Hannah Sward grew up to be a stripper a...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Ellen Meister talks about TAKE MY HUSBAND, writing a pilot, why she loves writing why women shouldn't put their needs second, and so much more.

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  Ellen Meister is one of the warmest, funniest, most generous writers around. I am so, so lucky to know her. She's the author of The Ro...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Beloved book influencer, author, publisher, podcaster and mother of four, friend to all readers/writers/moms, Zibby Owens talks about her racking-up-the-raves memoir BOOKENDS, Thrive Causmetics mascara, and more!

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  Who doesn't know of and adore Zibby Owens? She is an author, podcaster, publisher, CEO, and mother of four. And a force of nature. And...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Edie Meidav talks about grief, empathy, love, blindness in human relations, an alphabet to answer questions, and her new novel, ANOTHER LOVE DISCOURSE

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  I’m thrilled to host Edie Meidav .com on the blog today for her astonishing new book ANOTHER LOVE DISCOURSE. I’m thrilled to host Edie Mei...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Poets & Writers contributing editor Michael Bourne talks about his debut BLITHEDALE CANYON, writing fiction vs. being a journalist, California as a character, and so much more

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  All writers adore Poets & Writers and The Millions, which means they also love Michael Bourne, a  contributing editor at Poets & W...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Robin Black talks about Mrs. Dalloway, the book that mattered to her the most.

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  What books matter the most to us, and why do we turn to them time after time? I've long admired Robin Black , both as a person, a lite...
Monday, April 4, 2022

OUT TODAY! Gina Sorell's wise and witty novel< THE WISE WOMEN, about real estate, motherhood, family and so much more! To celebrate: a movie and a few silly questions...

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30 Books we Can't Wait to read in 2022-- Parade Read With Jenna's Most Anticipated books of 2022 "A fine job describing neighbo...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Women are rewriting their own story! Come see how in Gina Barreca's hilarious collection of flash fiction from some of the fiercest women around: FAST FIERCE WOMEN

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No one writes a funnier bio than Gina herself, So here it is:  Gina Barreca has appeared, often as a repeat guest, on  20/20 ,  The Today Sh...
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Stay tuned, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU, my 12th novel is coming August 4, 2020 from Algonquin. My 11th novel CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD is an Indie Next Pick. IS THIS TOMORROW was an May Indie Pick. I'm also the New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOU, a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick, a Costco "Pennie's Pick." a NAIBA bestseller and on the Best Books of 2011 List from San Francisco Chronicle, Providence Journal, Kirkus Reviews and Bookmarks Magazine. I'm the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction. I was a 2013 finalist in the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and a finalist in the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowship, four of my novels were optioned for screen, and I talked my way into writing the script for two of them. My essay, HIgh Infidelity, has been optioned for film. I'm a book critic for The San Francisco Chronicle and People Magazine. I teach novel writing for UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and Stanford online, do private fiction editing, and I am a professional namer! I live with my husband, writer/editor Jeff Tamarkin and we beam with pride about our son, an actor/filmmaker in college. Visit me at http://www.carolineleavitt.com.
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