CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE

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

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Elizabeth Rosner talks about the reissue of Blue Nude

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Elizabeth Rosner's latest, unsettlingly haunting novel Blue Nude is now reissued in paperback, something every writer wants. I want ...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Joan Leegant talks about Wherever You Go

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J oan Leegant , author of An Hour in Paradise , won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for the best book of Jewish-American fiction and the L. ...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Susan Henderson talks about Up From The Blue

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Just about every writer I know adores Susan Henderson . Let's talk about her shining resume: a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Moving day

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The woman in the photo is my mother, who taught me to read when I was three and who made sure I got to the library every three days, and who...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Elisabeth Tova Bailey talks about The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating

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When I heard of The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey ,(that's her portrait above), I was instantly fascinated. I ...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Emma Donoghue talks about ROOM

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I first picked up Room when I was at BEA. I've read and loved Emma Donoghue 's work before, (Slammerkin, The Woman Who Gave Birth To...
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Storytelling and health care

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When I was writing Pictures of You , an amazing thing happened. This boy appeared: ten-years-old, severely asthmatic and I resisted. The las...
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Chandra Hoffman talks about adoption and her new book Chosen

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Several years ago, I wrote a novel, Girls in Trouble, about open adoption, based on the year my husband and I spent trying to open-adopt a c...
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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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