Jan Ellison’s debut novel, A Small Indiscretion, came out in paperback this spring. The book takes readers across decades and continents—from Berkeley to London and back again—to show us what happens to a happily married mother of three when the mistakes and youthful transgressions of years past unexpectedly turn up to meddle with the present. As with her O. Henry Prize-winning story, "The Company of Men," Ellison demonstrates her ability to render without apology the not-so-nice sides of her … [Read more...] about Every Notebook, Photograph, and Letter: An Interview with Jan Ellison
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Coddled, Sexting Millennials: Jennifer duBois Interviews Tony Tulathimutte
Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens is a searing and savagely smart dissection of the life and opinions of a group of San Francisco millennials: bipolar autodidact Henrik, ruthless aspiring writer Linda, porn-addicted romantic Will, and hazily embattled activist Cory. With relentless intelligence and wit—and prose that’s earning comparisons to David Foster Wallace—Tulathimutte examines his characters’ anxieties and aspirations, vanities and self-hatreds, and the gap between private … [Read more...] about Coddled, Sexting Millennials: Jennifer duBois Interviews Tony Tulathimutte