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Off for Summer Vacation! 23 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
Dear FWR friends: We hope this finds you well. It’s hard to believe that we’ve nearly reached the end of summer. Or, perhaps more amazingly, that we’ve nearly reached our fifth anniversary! It’s a bi...
Book-of-the-Week Winners: Tumbledown 21 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
Last week’s feature was Robert Boswell’s new novel, Tumbledown, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Julia Ray (@jraymac31) Sara Levine (@levinehere) Dan Hamilton (@djhamilton) Congrats! To ...
Sparta, by Roxana Robinson 20 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Roxana Robinson’s fifth novel, Sparta (Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux), tells of young Marine Conrad Farrell’s return home after two deployments in Iraq. It is the story...
Twilight of the Übermensch: An Interview with Neil Connelly 16 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Neil Connelly writes strong, sure sentences about people mired in personal weakness and uncertainty. In two novels classified as young adult (St. Michael’s Scales and The Miracle Stealer) and two clas...
Recuperating History: An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita 14 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2010, author Karen Tei Yamashita’s most recent book, I Hotel (Coffee House Press), consists of ten interlinking novellas which detail the rise and fall of Sa...
Book of the Week: Tumbledown, by Robert Boswell 13 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
This week’s feature is Robert Boswell’s new novel, Tumbledown, which was published last week by Graywolf. Boswell is the author of six previous novels, three story collections, and two books of nonfic...
Book-of-the-Week Winners: A Nearly Perfect Copy 13 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Last week’s feature was Allison Amend’s new novel, A Nearly Perfect Copy, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Shirley Boulay (@sboulaywrites) Rebecca Stead (@rebstead) Linda Stevenson (@Lind...
Tumbledown, by Robert Boswell 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
“There are two types of writers,” Robert Boswell told a room of graduate students at Oregon State University in May. “The ones who keep writing the same book, and the ones whose books are all differen...
Coming Through in a Storm: An Interview with Peter Anderson 10 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
Peter Anderson was never short of ideas for stories, be it short fiction or novels. A voracious reader, he spent years mulling over ideas and plots, characters and setting and images, sifting through ...
In Conversation with the World’s Strongest Librarian 7 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Josh Hanagarne’s desk on the third floor of the Salt Lake City Public Library is the one with the black, globe-sized kettlebell on it. The kettlebell is all bell and no whistles. In his book, The Worl...
