Hello? by Liza Wiemer One HELLO can change a life. One HELLO can save a life. So Hello? is your YA debut novel and the first to be published. Can you tell us a little bit about the experience and what Hello? is about? LW: Hello? tested me in ways I could never have expected.[…]
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Your story depicts a neglected, poor Michigan neighborhood without hope except for one man, Bishop. It also has a hint of personal importance to you. Tell us how you developed the story. DD: The Sons of Shea was a passion project for me. It began as a hobby — I had no strategy for publishing[…]
Further Joy by John Brandon Quirky, inventive characters populate John Brandon’s first short story collection, from a down-on-his-luck former high school football star to a little league player obsessed with entrepreneurship. Each of the 11 stories is a winner. Shelf Unbound: You’ve written three novels, and this is your first collection of short stories. What[…]
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang The first publication from Lena Dunham’s Random House imprint Lenny, Sour Heart is a brilliant, moving portrayal of the struggles of Chinese girls coming of age in America. Shelf Unbound: Your young girl characters struggle with their families’, particularly their mothers’, expectations that they stay tightly connected to the family[…]
Surfing With Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning by Aaron James Author, Aaron James, begs to differ with Jean-Paul Sartre, who once declared waterskiing to be “the ideal limit of aquatic sports. The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once declared “the ideal limit of aquatic sports . . . is waterskiing.” The avid[…]
Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited by Marc Schuster Tired of California examines the efforts of the Beach Boys to reinvent themselves in the early 1970s as they recorded their critically acclaimed Holland album. The story of Holland is the story of a band trying to reinvent itself. Drawing on a wide range[…]
Interview: Earle Labor, Biographer of Jack London: An American Life
By shelfmedia Interview Jun 17, 2015
Shelf Unbound: How did you become interested in London’s works, and what about his writing most appeals to you? Earle Labor: I first became interested in London’s works when I was a grade-schooler in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma. Ours was a consolidated school for kids who lived on farms in the surrounding area along with the few[…]
Interview: Dave Housley, Author of If I Knew The Way, I Would Take You Home
By shelfmedia Interview Jun 17, 2015
shelf unbound What’s a typical starting point for you in writing a story, for example the guy who hooks up with a celebrity at a party and then finds out she later overdosed in “Pop Star Dead at 22”? davehousley For me, it’s usually a person in a situation. “Pop Star Dead at 22” is[…]
Interview: Michael Coffey, Author of The Business of Naming Things
By shelfmedia Interview Jun 17, 2015
shelfunbound What’s a typical starting point for you in writing a story, for example rebounding 30-year-old Price Chopper employee Carla in her “transitional phase,” in which “she was and was not a lot of things, and in there, in between things, she felt free.” michaelcoffey In looking back at these eight stories, I find that[…]
shelfunbound What’s a typical starting point for you in writing a story, for example unhappy thirty-something Anna Green, who survives a shooting at her high school reunion only to be defrauded by her first boyfriend? karenebender For me, a story is the collision of something in real life that interests me, and my desire to[…]
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