Christine Sneed
Q and A with Rebecca Makkai, MUSIC FOR WARTIME
1. Your stories are often very funny. I'm thinking especially of "Painted Ocean, Painted Ship" and "The November Story." Some say that...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Scott Nadelson, BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Tell us a little about your new novel. I think of Between You and Me as the chronicle of a nebbish, a nobody; it’s a combination of...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20183 min read
Q and A with Michelle Falkoff, PLAYLIST FOR THE DEAD
Tell us a little about your book. Playlist for the Dead is about a boy named Sam whose best friend Hayden commits suicide and leaves...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20181 min read
Tips for Writers from Mare Swallow, Director of the Chicago Writers Conference
1. What is the single most important thing an aspiring writer should know? You need to constantly work at this; getting published isn't...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20186 min read
Q and A with Ross Ritchell, THE KNIFE
Tell us a little about your novel. The Knife follows an unidentified team of Special Operators on their deployment to an unidentified...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Heidi Pitlor, THE DAYLIGHT MARRIAGE
I had trouble putting down this harrowing, moving novel, which Heidi Pitlor was kind enough to talk to me about recently via email. The...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20186 min read
Q and A with Lori Ostlund, AFTER THE PARADE
After the Parade is one of the best novels I've read in a long time; as its jacket copy states, it is "a deeply moving and beautiful...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20183 min read
Q and A with Elizabeth McKenzie, THE PORTABLE VEBLEN
From the publisher: The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that’s as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20187 min read
Q and A with Aspen Matis, GIRL IN THE WOODS
Adapted from Girls in the Woods’ jacket copy: Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20184 min read
Q and A with Andy Mozina, CONTRARY MOTION
1. Tell us a little about your book. Contrary Motion is about a divorced harpist living in Chicago getting ready for a principal harp...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Grace Tiffany, GUNPOWDER PERCY
1. Tell us a little about your new novel. Gunpowder Percy is a tale of early-modern intrigue, religious obsession, and Machiavellian...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20184 min read
Q and A with Christopher Torockio, THE SOUL HUNTERS
1. Tell us a little about your novel. The Soul Hunters is a multi-generational exploration of a family that has just lost its...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20188 min read
Q and A with Jason Lee Brown, CHAMPIONSHIP RUN
Much of this Q & A originally appeared in Michiganders Post online https://michiganderspost.com/2016/04/13/7-questions-with-author-and-ed...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20183 min read
Q and A with Alison Umminger, AMERICAN GIRLS (US title)/MY FAVOURITE MANSON GIRL (UK title)
1. An overview of American Girls (American title)/My Favourite Manson Girl (UK title): Anna has had a miserable year. Everything feels...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20184 min read
Q and A with Zoe Zolbrod, THE TELLING
1. Tell us a little about your new book. It’s a memoir that’s structured around the times I told about my childhood sexual assault. When...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20183 min read
Q and A with Gioia Diliberto, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG: A LIFE UNWRAPPED
1. Tell us a little about your book. Diane von Furstenberg: A Life Unwrapped is a biography of one of the most influential and...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20187 min read
Q and A with Anne Raeff, THE JUNGLE AROUND US
1. The stories in The Jungle Around Us take place mostly in the U.S. and in South and Central America. I know you've traveled...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Rocco Versaci, THAT HIDDEN ROAD
1. Tell us a little about your book. When I was forty-two, I rode my bicycle across the country, from San Diego to North Carolina. I did...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Q and A with Phong Nguyen, THE ADVENTURES OF JOE HARPER
1. Tell us a little about your new book. The Adventures of Joe Harper is a spin-off of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and it concerns Tom...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 19, 20186 min read
Q and A with Jaimee Wriston Colbert, WILD THINGS
Wild Things began in that post 9/11 decade where everything felt (and still feels!) like it was falling apart: wars, terrorism, the...
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