Literary Fiction

Anna Gomez on Unconditional Love, Writing Inspiration and Her New Road Trip Novel

After experiencing a great loss in her life years ago, Anna Gomez decided it was time to channel her feelings on paper and see where it would take her. Today, with several books under her belt, she considers herself “a hopeless romantic” who writes about real life, flawed characters and…

BookTribSeptember 12, 2024

Book Club Network Fiction

Latest Masterpiece in Elizabeth Strout’s Literary Repertoire, “Tell Me Everything”

Tell Me Everything is the latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout, selected as the 107th pick for Oprah's Book Club. Going into this novel knowing beloved Strout characters Bob Burgess, Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge would have a part to play, I wondered if we’d spend equal time…

Sophie CampbellSeptember 9, 2024

Fiction Listicles

5 Family Dramas Full of Chaos, Rivalry and Devotion

One of the greatest aspects of siblings is having someone in your corner to go through life with. Siblings know you in a way no one else can: you grew up together, share the same trauma, and walk through life together. So, when you have a sibling who chooses to…

Kelsey HallSeptember 4, 2024

Fiction

“The Midnight Library” Author’s Restorative Tale of Otherworldly Encounter in Ibiza

The Life Impossible, newest novel by New York Times best-selling author Matt Haig, is a thought-provoking read and compelling page-turner. When a grieving widow in England inherits a house in Ibiza from a friend she barely knew, her curiosity about her friend’s last wishes draws her to the island and…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 9, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

“Tell Me Everything” About Elizabeth Strout’s Upcoming Novel and the End(?) of Her Literary World

Earlier this year, in January, Booker-shortlisted and Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout announced the upcoming release of her new book, Tell Me Everything. Coming August 2024, this will be Strout’s 10th published novel and the latest addition to her Shirley Falls and Crosby-centred fictional universe, a literary world she has…

Sophie CampbellMarch 6, 2024

Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Love, Intrigue and International Arms Trade: Unveiling Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s “Burning Distance”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

Blaine DesantisApril 26, 2023

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Rewriting the ’50s: The Women of Radcliffe College and the Power of the Page

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

Blaine DesantisAugust 30, 2023

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Warsaw’s Secret Pages: Madeline Martin on “The Keeper of Hidden Books”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

Blaine DesantisJanuary 24, 2024

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: From Seattle to the Spirit Realm: P.L. Hampton’s Journey With “Shadowland”

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

Blaine DesantisJanuary 31, 2024

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Murder Amidst the Antiques: C.L. Miller Uncovered

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

Blaine DesantisFebruary 14, 2024

The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

Fiction

Uncover a Criminal Conspiracy in New Southern Noir

Author Snowden Wright is a native son of small-town Meridian, Mississippi, familiarly known as Queen City for its “golden age” in the years between 1890-1930 when it was the largest city in the state and a center for railroads and manufacturing. In an interview from May 10, 2023 with the…

Linda HitchcockAugust 12, 2024

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Three Siblings’ Lives Are Irrevocably Changed by the Turbulence of the 1960s

In his previous novels, America and Freedom, Mike Bond brought us four ambitious young people who, on vastly different paths, are navigating their way through the country’s turbulent years of sturm und drang. It’s the 1960s, and each of them has responded to the tumult and politics with passion and…

Sherri DaleyAugust 15, 2022

Fiction

Coastal Town Stunned by Mysterious Tragedy in Literary Fiction

A wonderful debut by Alina Grabowski, Women and Children First follows the lives of ten women before and after the death of a high school student in a coastal Massachusetts town. It is a story about community and how people’s lives are intertwined, female friendships, agency and memory. Grabowski shows us the…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 22, 2024

Feature art for BookTrib review of The Memo by Rachel Dodes and Lauren Mechling

Fiction

“The Memo” is the Blueprint to Success in Mind-Bending Rom-Com

If you were offered a do-over, not limited to clothing, hair or make-up, rather an opportunity to erase the past 15 years of your life history for a chance to relive your past, would you make that choice? There would be strict rules, terms and conditions as part of this…

Linda HitchcockJuly 16, 2024

Fiction

Award-Winning Coming-Of-Age Story Set Amidst China’s Cultural Revolution

George Lee’s debut novel Dancing in the River (Guernica Editions) offers a rare and intimate view into the coming of age of a young boy in a sleepy mountain village along the Yangtze River, during and after China’s Cultural Revolution. From grammar school through college, Little Bright maneuvers a turbulent…

Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 18, 2022

Fiction

Ambition, Intrigue, Romance & Mysterious Life in Old Hollywood

The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard by Michael Callahan begins with a quote from Gabriel García Márquez: “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.” This succinct epigram neatly sums up Edith (Edie) Stoppelmoor born and fled from Beatrice, Nebraska, otherwise known as “Nan”…

Linda HitchcockJuly 10, 2024

Anna Gomez on Unconditional Love, Writing Inspiration and Her New Road Trip Novel

5 Family Dramas Full of Chaos, Rivalry and Devotion

“Tell Me Everything” About Elizabeth Strout’s Upcoming Novel and the End(?) of Her Literary World

Books & Looks Podcast: Love, Intrigue and International Arms Trade: Unveiling Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s “Burning Distance”

Books & Looks Podcast: Rewriting the ’50s: The Women of Radcliffe College and the Power of the Page

Books & Looks Podcast: Warsaw’s Secret Pages: Madeline Martin on “The Keeper of Hidden Books”

Books & Looks Podcast: From Seattle to the Spirit Realm: P.L. Hampton’s Journey With “Shadowland”

Books & Looks Podcast: Murder Amidst the Antiques: C.L. Miller Uncovered

Three Siblings’ Lives Are Irrevocably Changed by the Turbulence of the 1960s

Award-Winning Coming-Of-Age Story Set Amidst China’s Cultural Revolution

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