CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE

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

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

What if just a cough robbed you of your life as you knew it? How would you fight your way back? Andrea Buchanan's THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING is that story and it's extraordinary.

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 Oh my God.  I met Andi years ago and we hung out at a cafe and I watched happily and with admiration as she became quit...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

A brilliantly epic saga about art (think Tiffany), the ends and beginnings of lives, communes, and the dazzle of secrets. The sublime Lisa Gornick talks about her racking-up the raves novel THE PEACOCK FEAST.

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I first met Lisa Gornick through her novels, which I loved and was astonished by. But I didn't get to actually meet her in perso...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Not only is Julie Clark's THE ONES WE CHOOSE a fantastic novel that you all should buy right NOW, but it's going to be a FILM!

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Not only does the amazing Julie Clark have a debut that is knocking everyone's socks off, she now has a film deal!...
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A loving marriage. A terrible medical mistake. Judy Goldman talks about her extraordinary memoir TOGETHER

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Judy Goldman has written the most wrenching and beautiful love letter this year. Together: A memoir of a Marriage and a Medical ...
Monday, February 4, 2019

A love letter to her ranch. The perils of the writing life. Finding your center and healing it. The great, great Pam Houston talks about DEEP CREEK

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I think I've loved every thing Pam Houston has written. She has that rare ability to be so honest on the page, so brave even a...
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Bestselling author Pam Jenoff talks about THE LOST GIRLS OF PARIS, research, and why every book is harder to write than the last

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I'm a little bit prejudiced on all things Pam Jenoff because not only is she a fantastic writer, but she...
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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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