The Flight Attendant Has Landed!
“Filled with turbulence and sudden plunges in altitude, ‘The Flight Attendant’ is a very rare thriller whose penultimate chapter made me think to...
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04 Apr
Good Reads, The Writing Process
Category Archives: Good Reads
31 Dec
Good Reads
This Year, Take a Deep Breath and Focus on Others
When I was a boy, my parents’ New Year’s Eve parties were not precisely chaotic studies in dissolution and debauchery, but once when...
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07 Dec
Good Reads
The Ladies’ Room Just Inside Tomorrow Land: A Christmas Story
by Chris Bohjalian HE LEANED AGAINST THE cement wall, a father who was no longer young with a daughter who was, and listened...
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12 May
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Untold Stories
The novel, “Midwives,” 20 years later: What was the early reaction to the novel like? Has it changed over time?
It was twenty years ago that “Midwives” was published: 1997. Seinfeld was still on the air. The Spice Girls had two of the...
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04 Feb
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Vermont
Howard Frank Mosher: a heart as immense as his talent
Of the million and a half words (at least a million and a half) that Howard Frank Mosher published, the sentence I think...
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04 Jan
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Untold Stories
An interview in which I reveal my favorite children’s book, what I did before I became a novelist, and my response to one very garish dust jacket
Over the holidays, I was interviewed about my work and “The Sleepwalker” by Laura Hamlett of Playback St. Louis. I thought her questions...
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REPOST: They don’t make toys like they used to — thank heavens
The bug wasn’t Gregor Samsor-big. We’re not talking Kafkaesque. But in my memory it was the size of a cat. It was vaguely...
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29 Nov
Good Reads, The Writing Process
The Premonition — on sale today!
Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who Are Friends, When I finish a novel and the book works — and heaven knows that’s...
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27 Nov
Every Day, General, Good Reads
REPOST – Black Friday meets Ruby Tuesday…and Wednesday Addams
If you’re reading this, it means you survived Black Friday. You think I’m kidding. I’m not. Black Friday can be terrifying. You don’t...
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29 Jul
Good Reads
What I’ve Been Reading This Summer
Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who Are Friends, I’ve been asked a lot this summer what I’m reading, especially from readers who...
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