Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies is the book of the moment, a smart and compelling he said/she said that’s a lot closer to The Goldfinch than Gone Girl. Check out “A Bacon Guide to the Big Fall Novels” for a preview. Even…
She was born rignt next door in Kentucky but didn’t have time to get too attached. “Being an army brat,” writes Sarah McCoy, “I didn’t stay in the Bluegrass State long enough to wear a Derby hat or sip the whiskey….
Harrison Scott Key describes his memoir The World’s Largest Man as “a true story about what it’s like to be related to insane people from Mississippi.” “As a boy, the author was partial to sock puppets, calligraphy, and poems tapped…
Rebecca Wells has inspired countless women like my cute mom who all these years later still gets together with her “Ya-Ya” friends (they also call themselves the Go-Go’s). Rebecca herself missed most of the celebration around the success of The…
“As I stared down forty, I realized that this great bright dream of being a novelist was in danger of becoming my single biggest regret. I began writing The Secret Wisdom of the Earth the very next day, with the…