A Profile of Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Jennifer Clement, and Nina Siegal
Jennifer Clement, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, and Nina Siegal anticipate the success of their forthcoming books despite previous publishing setbacks.
Department: Feature
Agents & Editors: Amy Einhorn
The publisher of her eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House, Amy Einhorn discusses her early days as an assistant at FSG, the importance of titles, and how she pushes her authors to make their books the best they can be.
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Agents & Editors: David Gernert
Literary agent David Gernert discusses the bookstore as a key to our culture, what it's like to work with John Grisham, and how big changes in the industry are affecting authors' incomes.
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Eat, Pray, Write: A Profile of Elizabeth Gilbert
What happens after you sell eight million copies of a book? One of the few authors who can answer that question is Elizabeth Gilbert, whose first novel since the 2006 release of her mega-successful memoir was published by Viking in October.
The Pugilist at Rest: A Profile of August Kleinzahler
August Kleinzahler, whose reputation as a scrappy provocateur has taken on a life of its own, is in truth a thoughtful soul who, during the course of writing eleven books, including his latest, The Hotel Oneira, has mastered the art of sound on the page.
We Can't Choose What Haunts Us: A Profile of Andre Dubus III
After an early publishing career marked by slow progress and rejection, Andre Dubus III combines the empathetic power of his novel House of Sand and Fog with the geography of his memoir, Townie, in his new book, Dirty Love, a collection of thematically linked novellas.
Where the Writing Will Take Her: A Profile of Jesmyn Ward
The responsibility that Jesmyn Ward feels toward the Southern town where she was born shapes not only her new memoir, Men We Reaped, but also where and how she lives her life.
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Imagination Is Not a Straight Line: A Profile of Rick Bass
In his nonfiction Rick Bass writes with a destination, but In his fiction, including the new novel, All the Land to Hold Us, he throws away the map and heads off into the wilderness, deep in the Yaak Valley of Montana.
Agents & Editors: Jordan Pavlin
A vice president and executive editor at Knopf, Jordan Pavlin discusses her terror of launch meetings, the particular genius of Sonny Mehta, and her job as a writer’s ideal reader.
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First Fiction 2013
For our thirteenth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction, we asked five established authors—Paul Harding, Karen Russell, Nathan Englander, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—to introduce this year’s group of talented debut authors: NoViolet Bulawayo, Bushra Rehman, Bill Cheng, Anton DiSclafani, and Chinelo Okparanta.
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