Kate Braverman – Author Interview
She likes it HOT. She can take eight hours of August Tucson sun and still want more. Me, I´d be a stain on the cement within thirty minutes. Born in Philadelphia, raised in Los Angeles, Kate Braverman is
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Megan Chance – Author Interview
For most of her life Megan Chance has written short stories, poetry and novels. This Washington native has written professionally over the last 14 years and has produced ten novels, most recently, An Inconvenient Wife.
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Joyce, Murdoch and Woolf on Film
It’s no surprise literary fiction novels make great movies. What surprises me is the literary fiction authors themselves (or their inspiration) also make good movies. Here are three novelists and three movies depicting them
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Laura Elise Taylor – Author Interview
Creative talent usually comes with more than one outlet. In the case of Laura Elise Taylor, she divides her time between writing in the winter and photography during “wedding season”. This Canadian author slash photographer was born
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Golda Fried – Author Interview
Nellcott Is My Darling is Golda´s second book and a finalist for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. Her first was a collection of short stories titled Darkness
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A Girl Like Che Guevara Review
In Havana, Cuba during 1982 high school students were required to put in time in the Tobacco fields as part of their learning and as service to the communist regime. A Girl Like Che Guevara follows the life of sixteen year old Lourdes Torres through her four month term in the School-in-the-Fields, Pinar del Rio camp.
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Stolen Moments with Camilla Gibb
Sweetness in the Belly was recently short listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction. This is one of Canada’s prestigious literary prizes and although Camilla did not take home the trophy
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Joyce Hackett – Author Interview
If you have one passion in life, you´re lucky. If you have two you must be blessed. Besides being a full-time writer Joyce Hackett is also a community activist with “emphasis on the active”.