Meet British bestseller Joanna Trollope
"The thing that I find spellbinding," Joanna Trollope declares, "is the contemplation of reality as it is attempted to be lived in the late twentieth century. It's back to the old Jane Austen line of fiction being a mirror held up to reality, and Sir Walter Scott saying that a novel is just a reflection of the everyday doings of ordinary people."
Writer's Voice
Novelist Elizabeth Berg on "the boy who broke her heart"
"If there is one thing I've learned about being a writer, it's that inspiration can strike anywhere, at any time. Such was the case with Joy School."
Interview with Kem Nunn,
author of The Dogs of Winter
-- the rise and fall of a surfer
A week after our talk about his extraordinary new novel, The Dogs of Winter, Kem Nunn will drive down the coast to shop the book in Hollywood. Nunn thinks movie makers might have trouble with what he calls his "gnostic surf fable."
Zeke and Ned
By Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
Simon & Schuster
The Club Dumas
By Arturo Perez-Reverte
Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto
Harcourt Brace
The Saskiad
By Brian Hall
Houghton Mifflin
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