Burning in Boston
It’s been said lots of times, in lots of different ways, that any good novelist must have something burning inside him or her; something that absolutely has to be said. It burned white- hot in Richard Yates. Though racked in…
Category: Authors
To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish?
That is the question for more and more writers. On October 29, 2012, two of the big six publishing houses, Random House and Penguin, announced that they would merge. The merger would create the largest book publisher in the world…
Douglas Trevor Speaks With Dead Darlings About His Debut Novel Girls I Know
Set in Boston and Cambridge during the winter of 2001, Douglas Trevor’s debut novel Girls I Know introduces the reader to a cast of sharply-drawn characters from divergent backgrounds, and treats the build-up and aftermath of a restaurant shooting with…
An Interview With Daphne Kalotay, author of Sight Reading
Building upon the success of her debut novel Russian Winter, Cambridge-based Daphne Kalotay’s new release, Sight Reading, explores the professional and personal lives of Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians over twenty years, from 1987 to 2007. A long-time Grub Street instructor…