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When Sadness Is at Your Door, written and illustrated by Eva Eland, is a book to treasure. In our Writer’s Bone interview, Eland, as insightful and kind as her story, and I discuss her creative process, the stigma of sadness, and the necessity of mindfulness.
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Katharine Smyth’s writing in All the Lives We Ever Lived is lovely, and her story, which is so personal to her, also felt personal to me, as it would, I think, to anyone who has ever felt connected to Virginia Woolf, the outdoors, or the experiences of love and grief.
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During my conversation with New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein, we get to hear her unique perspective on sex crimes, the Me Too movement, and writing Blood Oath, her 20th novel in the Alexandra Cooper crime series.
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All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth (Crown Publishing)—memoir, biography, and love letter to To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf in one—is simply wonderful. I read it almost without taking a breath. In our interview, the author and I discuss Woolf’s writing, grief, and the art of the memoir.
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For our March Books that Should Be on Your Radar Writer’s Bone, I reviewed two very different books about sadness: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and When Sadness Is at Your Door by Eva Eland. I love both of these books in very different ways.
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We Now Return to Regular Life by Martin Wilson shows the aftermath of kidnapping and abuse through the eyes of the survivor’s sister and friend. The author and I discussed this young adult novel, as well as Wilson’s powerful debut, What They Always Tell Us.
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Writer’s Bone’s February Books That Should Be on Your Radar are up! Read mine for Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s debut novel, House of Stone, Martin Wilson’s debut YA novel, What They Always Tell Us, and more!
Read all our recs: 17 Books That Should Be on Your Radar: February 2019
Author Micah Dean Hicks and I recently discussed his debut novel, Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones. This fantastical political satire takes a look at gene editing, racism, and fear of the other.
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House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma examines with compassion and wit Zimbabwe’s devastating history and our relationships with government, truth, and one another. The book is for fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley and novels by Nabokov. I had the pleasure of discussing this brilliant work of fiction with the author.
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Susan Orlean believes that books have souls. The Library Book sure does. Orlean depicts the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library before and after the 1986 fire and reveals the world of the library—“a place that is home when you aren’t at home.” In this month’s Writer’s Bone monthly roundup, I also recommend We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.
Read all our recs: 21 Books That Should Be on Your Radar: January 2019
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