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Q&A with “da Whizz” - the true author of “The Occidental Book of the Dead.”

Q&A with “da Whizz” - the true author of “The O...

Rebecca McDonnell

For our October PREM1ER pick, The Occidental Book of the Dead, we were delighted to put a few questions to T. Geronimo Johnson about his extraordinary new novel. However, in keeping...

Rebecca McDonnell

Q&A with “da Whizz” - the true author of “The O...

For our October PREM1ER pick, The Occidental Book of the Dead, we were delighted to put a few questions to T. Geronimo Johnson about his extraordinary new novel. However, in keeping...

Under Story: A Letter from Chloe Benjamin

Under Story: A Letter from Chloe Benjamin

Rebecca McDonnell

Dear Reader, I've always loved literary-leaning science fiction and fantasy.  I grew up reading imaginative, soulful young adult fiction, like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, Lois Lowry's The Giver,...

Rebecca McDonnell

Under Story: A Letter from Chloe Benjamin

Dear Reader, I've always loved literary-leaning science fiction and fantasy.  I grew up reading imaginative, soulful young adult fiction, like Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, Lois Lowry's The Giver,...

The Ruins: A Q&A with Becky Docton

The Ruins: A Q&A with Becky Docton

Rebecca McDonnell

The novel opens with an unforgettable scene of a child witnessing her mother’s departure. Was that scene always your starting point? Yes, that scene was always the starting point. I...

Rebecca McDonnell

The Ruins: A Q&A with Becky Docton

The novel opens with an unforgettable scene of a child witnessing her mother’s departure. Was that scene always your starting point? Yes, that scene was always the starting point. I...

All Killers Aboard: A Letter from David Fennell

All Killers Aboard: A Letter from David Fennell

Rebecca McDonnell

Why I Wrote All Killers Aboard After two thrillers and four crime novels, I had accumulated a set of rules. Not writtenrules, nothing so deliberate as that. The kind that...

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Rebecca McDonnell

All Killers Aboard: A Letter from David Fennell

Why I Wrote All Killers Aboard After two thrillers and four crime novels, I had accumulated a set of rules. Not writtenrules, nothing so deliberate as that. The kind that...

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Villa Coco: A Letter from Andrew Sean Greer

Villa Coco: A Letter from Andrew Sean Greer

Rebecca McDonnell

My dear PREM1ER members What ever happened to the ‘charm novel’? You know, the kind of warm and funny story packed with characters and incident and description – something like...

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Rebecca McDonnell

Villa Coco: A Letter from Andrew Sean Greer

My dear PREM1ER members What ever happened to the ‘charm novel’? You know, the kind of warm and funny story packed with characters and incident and description – something like...

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Murder at the Hotel Orient: A Q&A with Alessandra Ranelli

Murder at the Hotel Orient: A Q&A with Alessand...

Rebecca McDonnell

Your hotel runs on anonymity. What’s harder to write: a character with secrets, or a character pretending not to have any? It’s much harder to subtly convey that a person is...

Rebecca McDonnell

Murder at the Hotel Orient: A Q&A with Alessand...

Your hotel runs on anonymity. What’s harder to write: a character with secrets, or a character pretending not to have any? It’s much harder to subtly convey that a person is...