Brad Neely When I found out that Brad Neely grew up in Fort Smith, I kind of freaked out. He’s not a public-facing celebrity by any means, but among my group of friends he’s something of a god. The reason we’re so smitten with Neely is “Wizard People, Dear Reader,” his wickedly funny voiceover dub […]
In Manjula Martin’s The Last Fire Season , she describes relocating to Sonoma County from San Francisco in 2017, just as the drought-driven wildfire seasons began to accelerate. The turbulence of the years since the pandemic and the out-of-control California wildfires started changed her life, and inspired and shaped her new memoir. “When the pandemic […]
From earliest memory, I knew that my aunt worked in book publishing. As an editor of children’s books at a large, corporate publisher, she would send me boxes upon boxes of cast-offs that she’d find around the office. Even before I had learned how to read, I would thumb through these books in my solitude—as […]
Thomas Hardy with his second wife, Florence. Photograph: Getty Images An exhaustive biography of Thomas Hardy’s romantic life is most fascinating when it chronicles his complicated menage with his wife and a young typist If only I had the talent, I would write the play. The year: 1910, or thereabouts. The scene: a gloomy drawing […]
Bestselling author Kiley Reid’s early attempts to get published were met with a ‘flat out no’ Interview Reid’s first novel ‘Such a Fun Age’ was a literary sensation. As she publishes her second, she talks about cash, class and motherhood Six years ago, the author Kiley Reid was an unknown quantity, with several unpublished books […]
