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"I didn't set out to write a book about Mary Shelley." Author Charlotte Gordon discusses her book Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley (Random House, 2015), which won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography.
"I hate to write. I loathe writing, but there's something in it that brings me back." Ethan Canin talks about inspiration, process, and his novel America America (Random House, 2008). His new novel, A Doubter's Almanac (Random House, 2016), is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Adam Johnson reads from his second short story collection at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. Fortune Smiles (Random House, 2015) is a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Fiction.
"What happens if you take the fantastic and the historical and bind them into the same book?" The award-winning author speaks with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about the mix of magic and reality in his latest novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (Random House, 2015).
Kelly Link discusses the reasons and options for the title of her new story collection, published by Random House last month, with author and book critic Lev Grossman. Get in Trouble is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"It has a skeleton of realism, but inside its rib cage it has a sort of paranormal heart." David Mitchell introduces and reads from his most recent book, The Bone Clocks (Random House, 2014), which was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
Actress and author Lena Dunham offers advice to young writers who may feel insecure about writing from their own life experiences. Dunham's essay collection, Not That Kind of Girl, was published this week by Random House. Read more about her book tour in Daily News.
"I'd say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than 'Try to be kinder.'" In May 2013 George Saunders gave a commencement speech at Syracuse University. It was recently published as a book, Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness, published earlier this month by Random House, as well as, in abbreviated form, this animated video, narrated by Saunders himself.
In this 2009 video Colum McCann discusses his novel Let the Great World Spin; he also answers the question, "Do you believe you're a writer yet?" McCann's latest novel, TransAtlantic, was recently nominated for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
Watch some of the creative professionals inside Random House, including Chip Kidd, who designed the magazine's January/February 2010 issue, explain how they approach new cover designs and tell some stories behind a few memorable covers, including those for the Stieg Larsson books.
