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Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s “Truthtelling” Puts the Magic in Magical Realism

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Untitled-design-13.jpg Lynne Sharon Schwartz has an intuitive ability to write with soul and substance. In Truthtelling (Delphinium), her new collection of twenty-five tight short stories, Schwartz moves effortlessly between realism and fantasy. Her characters are not so quirky as the things that happen to them, and her introspective writing lets…
Laura Newman
October 6, 2020
Fiction

Her Body and Other Parties: The New “Handmaid’s Tale?”

Watch out world. Carmen Maria Macho’s award-winning collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) will become a television series. Her phantasmagoric short stories, all about sex and shifting genders, are coming to a small screen near you. In development for FX, the series will be written by Gina Welch, known…
Joanna Poncavage
December 28, 2018
Fiction

Feel Like an Outsider? You’re Not Alone

I haven’t read a lot of short stories and when the publisher asked me to take a look at We Love Anderson Cooper (Celadon Books) I was happy to do so…the title made me smile and when the book arrived I was increasingly motivated by the great looking cover! A teenage…
Jennifer Blankfein
June 12, 2019
Fiction

Here’s Why Edgar Allan Poe Still Matters

Celebrating the death rather than the birthday of the master of the macabre, is only fitting. On this day October 7, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40 after he was found in a gutter on a side street in Baltimore, Maryland. Some people say he died…
Matt Gillick
October 7, 2016
Author SpotlightFiction

Julie Zuckerman on Her Linked Short Story Collection “The Book of Jeremiah”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/the-book-of-jeremiah-julie-zukerman.jpg With a healthy dose of Jewish tradition, a little Yiddish, and deep, very real characters, author Julie Zuckerman treats us to The Book of Jeremiah (Press 53), a story of a complex life well lived, spanning from the 1930s through the first decade of the 2000s. Through 13 linked stories that…
Jennifer Blankfein
August 12, 2020
MiscellanyPodcasts

Writer’s Bone: My Old Faithful Author Yang Huang

In 2013, Sean Tuohy met Daniel Ford at a Halloween party and they immediately hit it off. The Writer’s Bone podcast wasn’t born on that exact night, but they were able to discuss some of their favorite things like writing, screenwriting, books, movies, comedy, and comic books. Daniel and Sean feel that…
BookTrib
April 24, 2018
Podcasts

Writer’s Bone Podcast: Novelist Marc Cameron on the Future and his Newest Tom Clancy Book

Marc Cameron, author of the Jericho Quinn series and the recently published Tom Clancy Power and Empire, talks to Sean Tuohy about writing under a legend’s name, his “unplugged” writing process, and his future plans. https://www.amazon.com/Clancy-Power-Empire-Jack-Novel/dp/0735215898 Author of the New York Times bestselling Jericho Quinn Thriller series, Marc Cameron’s short…
Daniel Ford
December 18, 2017
MiscellanyPodcasts

Writer’s Bone: Friday Morning Coffee with Joe Hill

BookTrib.com recently added Writer’s Bone to our weekly features. Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy have been bringing us weekly podcasts of discussions they have with writers about the craft of writing and what motivates them to tell a good story. Today, you can enjoy a Friday Morning Coffee podcast featuring Joe Hill. In…
Daniel Ford
November 24, 2017

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