News stories tagged with "fiction"

(02/03/11) Our guest is Gish Jen, whose 1997 novel Mona in the Promised Land catapulted her to the top tier of contemporary American fiction. More recent work has included the story collection Who's Irish? and the novel, Typical American. Her latest book, World and Town, was published in October. Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson host.

(09/07/09) The author's most recent novel is a sexual coming-of-age story aimed at high school and adult readers. Ms. Prose's other works include the novels Goldenrod, Blue Angel and A Changed Man, as well as non-fiction--most recently--Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them, a NY Times Notable Book of the Year.

(06/17/09) As a child, writer Ellen Potter says New York City was the background for her earliest stories. It still is. Potter lives in Stone Mills, near Watertown. Her books include the award winning series, Olivia Kidney, Pish Posh and her newest novel, Slob. She told Todd Moe that many of her main characters are based on people she knew while growing up in the city.

(04/21/09) Our guest is Thomas McGuane, author of Gallatin Canyon In reviewing this collection of stories, The New York Times wrote, "Astonishing...words as access to the soul." McGuane participates as part of the St. Lawrence University Writers Series and will give a live talk on the SLU campus on April 22 at 8 pm in the Sykes Common Room. On this edition of Readers & Writers, hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson are joined by St. Lawrence University professor of English Kerry Grant.

(12/04/07) Murder, deceit, greed and water are all ingredients in a new murder mystery set in the Adirondacks. The book is titled, A Murderous Thirst - Death Comes to the Adirondacks, by Aileen Vincent-Barwood. She's been a foreign correspondent for the CBC, and editor of the St. Lawrence Plaindealer newspaper in Canton. Vincent-Barwood has also written books about life in the North Country and winters spent on a remote island in the Bahamas. In A Murderous Thirst, we follow former crime reporter Tyler Scott's return to her hometown in the Adirondacks. Life is shattered when she learns of a plan to build a luxury resort. Todd Moe spoke with Aileen Vincent- Barwood about her new novel.

(01/03/06) The Jason Black Adirondack Detective series has garnered a regional and national following in the last few years. Author John Briant lives and writes about Black's crime solving adventures in Old Forge. He's working on the fifth book in the mystery series this winter. Like his protagonist in the novels, Briant is a retired state trooper and crime investigator. He told Todd Moe that writing is his third career.

(09/06/02) Martha Foley talks with Liz Inness-Brown, North Country native, St. Lawrence university graduate and professor at St. Michael's College in Vermont, about her new novel, Burning Marguerite.