1. Your stories are often very funny.  I'm thinking especially of "Painted Ocean, Painted Ship" and "The November Story."  Some say that...

Tell us a little about your new novel. I think of Between You and Me as the chronicle of a nebbish, a nobody; it’s a combination of...

Tell us a little about your book. Playlist for the Dead is about a boy named Sam whose best friend Hayden commits suicide and leaves...

1. What is the single most important thing an aspiring writer should know? You need to constantly work at this; getting published isn't...

Tell us a little about your novel. The Knife follows an unidentified team of Special Operators on their deployment to an unidentified...

I had trouble putting down this harrowing, moving novel, which Heidi Pitlor was kind enough to talk to me about recently via email. The...

After the Parade is one of the best novels I've read in a long time; as its jacket copy states, it is  "a deeply moving and beautiful...

From the publisher: The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that’s as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and...

Adapted from Girls in the Woods’ jacket copy: Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a...

1. Tell us a little about your book. Contrary Motion is about a divorced harpist living in Chicago getting ready for a principal harp...

1. Tell us a little about your new novel. Gunpowder Percy is a tale of early-modern intrigue, religious obsession, and Machiavellian...

1. Tell us a little about your novel. The Soul Hunters is a multi-generational exploration of a family that has just lost its...

Much of this Q & A originally appeared in Michiganders Post online https://michiganderspost.com/2016/04/13/7-questions-with-author-and-ed...

1. An overview of American Girls (American title)/My Favourite Manson Girl (UK title):    Anna has had a miserable year. Everything feels...

1. Tell us a little about your new book. It’s a memoir that’s structured around the times I told about my childhood sexual assault.  When...

1. Tell us a little about your book. Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped is a biography of one of the most influential and...

1. The stories in The Jungle Around Us take place mostly in the U.S. and in South and Central America.  I know you've traveled...

1. Tell us a little about your book. When I was forty-two, I rode my bicycle across the country, from San Diego to North Carolina. I did...

1. Tell us a little about your new book. The Adventures of Joe Harper is a spin-off of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and it concerns Tom...

Wild Things began in that post 9/11 decade where everything felt (and still feels!) like it was falling apart: wars, terrorism, the...