Interview

About How to Set Yourself On Fire Sheila’s life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her...

Tell us a little about The Reservoir Tapes and how it relates to your previous book, Reservoir 13. JM:I have no shame in calling The Reservoir Tapes a ‘prequel’...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Winner of the 2013 Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Indie Book It’s 1875 in Drunken Bride, Texas, and the eve of former slave turned Comanche warrior Persimmon Wilson’s...