“A lot of my stories kind of start off as these little jokes in my head and then I just decide whether I can expand them in to a short story… or something longer.” Sean Adams talks about writing speculative fiction and his novel – The Heap. ” I wanted to write something that had Read More

“You have to do a lot of things to help a child get better.” Christina Adams talks about her book, her son’s autism, and camel milk in – Camel Crazy, A quest for miracles in the mysterious world of camels. “I knew …I just had this passion…it was just something I had to do. ” Read More

“Immigrants have a very impactful presence wherever they go….They enter the new language but they live and dream in another language and sometimes those languages cross fertilize each other.” Ilan Stavans shares his insights on culture and language and his book – How Yiddish changed America and how America changed Yiddish – an anthology he Read More

“I am interested in exploring … how the past and the future collide with the present.” Micheal Zapata plays with many genres in his novel – The Lost Book of Adana Moreau. ” History reaches out towards the present almost as if it is another world…Science fiction does the same, but going the other way…What Read More

“I never thought that the power existed in me to be able to forgive myself and to forgive God.” Tom Voss speaks about – Where War Ends, a combat veterans 2,700 mile journey to heal – Recovery from PTSD and Moral injury through meditation. – the memoir he wrote with his sister Rebecca Ann Nguyen. Read More

“Girl be Brave connects us to each other through our common need to be brave. Especially in today’s society we have so many things coming at us all the time.” Cheryl Hale shares her life and her inspiration in her new book Girl be Brave. “My heart is in there, in those pages. I tried Read More

“This life is only one in a series of lives. There is so much more to reality than what we’ve had so far.” Brother and sister, Jim and Anna Counter’s insights on life and truth, shared in their book – Two Lives One Understanding. “Its amazing that our minds could be so exactly alike, with Read More

“Political scientists and the public at large, don’t pay attention to literature as a component of resistance.” Belgium during the Nazi occupation, E. R. Ramzipoor’s novel – The Ventriloquist – tells how the Belgian resistance published a newspaper poking fun at the Nazis. “There were so many ordinary people who resisted in these crazy creative Read More

“With historical fiction we have an opportunity to examine…a more specific piece of history. So, together with readers we are bringing this history out of the dark.” Ruta Sapetys and her new novel – The Fountains of Silence. “Why is it we know these names like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, but we don’t know much about Read More

“Stories are important to understanding a life.” Dan Waters tracks down his own story in his memoir – “These Boys and their Fathers. “I just used everything I knew, to stick it together…(if) you can’t get at something straight on, you have to maybe go at it sideways. With this memoir, I had to go Read More