It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start.

Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of ….

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one….

Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters.….

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of ano….

Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe ….

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare..

A small profit is better than a big loss..

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only hav….

She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed fil….

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trust….

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible..

I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn'….

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the sam….

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In….

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones whi….