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04 Apr
Good Reads, The Writing Process

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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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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Good Reads, Untold Stories

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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      • Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands – 2014
      • The Light in the Ruins – 2013
      • The Sandcastle Girls – 2012
      • The Night Strangers – 2011
      • Secrets of Eden – 2009
    • Books – 2008 ~ 1995
      • Skeletons at the Feast – 2008
      • The Double Bind – 2007
      • Before You Know Kindness – 2004
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