CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE

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

Friday, December 9, 2016

Jessica Treadway talks about her stunner of a new novel How Will I Know You?, secrets, commercial verses literary and so much more

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Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases it apart. Kept me up half the night....
Friday, November 25, 2016

And now for something different, Watch out for (and help support) the astonishingly timely new film by Michael Medeiros, 3 Minutes, about courage, loss of innocence, gun violence and community

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Michael Medeiros is both a talented multi-ranged actor, a brilliant writer and director, and a friend. I first met...

And now for something different, Watch out for the astonishingly timely new film by Michael Medeiros, 3 Minutes, about courage, loss of innocence, gun violence and community

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Michael Medeiros is both a talented multi-ranged actor, a brilliant writer and director, and a friend. I first me...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Garine Isassi talks about her musical novel, (it's filled with original lyrics) Start With the Backbeat, and about rap, rivalry, race and genre

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Singer/songwriter/bookwriter Garine Isassi has done something different, writing a "musical" novel, filled with lyrics,...
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What does it mean to be loved for yourself? Real life Julia Pastrana was exhibited in freak shows as the "ugliest woman on earth," yet she was intelligent, spoke several languages, and even married. Carol Birch talks about Julia, and her ravishing new novel.Orphans of the Carnival

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She spoke 3 language, yet was exhibited in freak shows   "Roll up, roll up, for a beautifully written novel about the poi...

Four girls in a convent, tension-filled group dynamics and more in Sarah Domet's amazing debut, The Guineveres

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“Sarah Domet has brought forth some kind of wonderful miracle with The Guineveres.” —Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling a...

Her overweight father turned her into a nutritionist: Dawn Lerman talks about her hilarious (and helpful) book about family and food, MY FAT DAD: A MEMOIR OF FOOD, LOVE AND FAMILY, WITH RECIPES

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Dawn and her mom, Beauty I'm so happy to have Dawn Lerman here to talk about My Fat Dad. Dawn Lerman is a New York-based ...
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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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