Consumed by the Country: An Interview with Tatjana Soli
Tatjana Soli’s The Lotus Eaters is a stunning debut novel set in the Vietnam War. Helen Adams drops out of college and makes her way to Saigon, hoping to witness history in the making. She learns the...
View ArticleThe Lonely Polygamist, by Brady Udall
Golden Richards is six-and-a-half-feet tall, has four wives and twenty-eight children, builds brothels, pisses in mop buckets, covets his boss’s wife, wrestles ostriches, endures nuclear explosions,...
View ArticleA Million Little Writers (perhaps just a dozen)
Lots of digital ink has been spilled this week about James Frey’s Full Fathom Five endeavor. In simple terms, the company has enlisted bright young writers (most from MFA programs) to try to write the...
View ArticleBringing the News: An Interview with Richard Ford
Richard Ford, © Robert Yager Hailed by Michiko Kakutani as “one of his generation’s most eloquent voices,” Richard Ford is the best-selling author of six novels and three short story collections,...
View ArticleLicense to Write: Further Thoughts on Author Bios
Have you noticed that more and more often, writer bios emphasize everything about the author’s life but writing? Authors list their credentials from the odd jobs they’ve worked: door-to-door knife...
View ArticleFlipbook: “Culture”
Every few weeks, we launch a new Fiction Writers Review “Flipbook.” During the past two and a half years, we’ve featured more than 50 interviews with authors established and emerging. They’ve had such...
View ArticleThe Nuance of Noir: An Interview with Edwidge Danticat
Danticat, Credit Jill Krementz Edwidge Danticat is a writer well known for her stirring and insightful stories about Haitian life. Her novels, including Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Farming of Bones; and...
View ArticleThe Underdog Who Realized He Was on Top: An Interview with Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Credit: Linus Sundahl-Djerf We have barely sat down at Smooch Café in Fort Greene, and Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Swedish author and playwright, preempts my opening line: Should we do...
View ArticleRealism in Action: The Art of Invisibility in Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game”
I’m a white male. I feel guilty but helpless about how those facts might influence my reading preferences, especially since I’ve been charged with introducing college students to literature. I’m always...
View ArticleRealism in Action: The Art of Invisibility in Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game”
Editor’s Note: As we approach our tenth year of publishing Fiction Writers Review, we’ve decided to curate a series of “From the Archives” posts that we’ll re-publish each week or so during 2017. Some...
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