Christine Sneed
Inspiration: Your Title Here
This is a post that is currently on the American Literary Review site: The place where stories come from? I think that it must be the...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20183 min read
A Reader's Crush
This week's Ploughshares post, 2.28.11: Deborah Eisenberg. Martin Amis. Steve Almond. Alice Munro. Penelope Fitzgerald. Jim...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
Why Do We Do It?
I’m not sure how other fiction writers and poets feel about the choice they’ve made to ignore friends and family and the world at large...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20186 min read
The Long(er) View
My inaugural blog post! (from 2009....imported from my old site): A little over a year ago, I was invited to guest edit prose submissions...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20186 min read
Q and A with Kurt Baumeister, Author of Pax Americana
If you had to give us an elevator speech about your new novel . . . Eek! I’ll try: The Blue Hour is set in a contemporary fictional...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20186 min read
Q and A with Laura Pritchett about her novel The Blue Hour
If you had to give us an elevator speech about your new novel . . . Eek! I’ll try: The Blue Hour is set in a contemporary fictional...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 18, 20184 min read
Q and A with Joel Drucker, Author of the Memoir Don't Bet on It
1. Tell us a little about your new book. Don’t Bet on It is a portrait of my 28-year romance with my late wife, Joan Edwards. Our time...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 7, 20183 min read
What a Character! Incorporating a Living Person into a Work of Fiction
About four years ago when I started writing the first draft of what became my third book, the novel Paris, He Said, I knew that it would...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 7, 20184 min read
Giving up the ghost, or, when to stop submitting
The harsh truth is this: sometimes it’s time to give up. It can (and should, in many cases, I believe) take a while for writers to make...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 7, 20184 min read
Rated R for Racy: On Writing Sex Scenes
Rated R for Racy: Writing Sex Scenes As a graduate student in the mid-90s when I faced my first class of undergraduate fiction-writing...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 7, 20183 min read
Q and A with Ada Calhoun about Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
1. Tell us a little about Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give is a memoir structured as seven “toasts” about...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 7, 20184 min read
Q and A with Rebecca Entel about her novel Fingerprints of Previous Owners
1. Tell us a little about your novel. Here’s the jacket copy: At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 6, 20186 min read
Q and A with Scott Spencer about his most recent novel River Under the Road
One of my favorite writers in any genre, Scott Spencer, has a terrific new novel out, River Under the Road, the first of a planned...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 6, 20187 min read
Q and A with Michael Marcus about his story collection #1 Son and Other Stories
Jon Hess has this to say about #1 Son and Other Stories , Michael Marcus’s debut story collection: “Michael Marcus takes us on a wild...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 6, 20185 min read
The Heart's Most Urgent Commands: Scott Spencer Takes Dictation
He’s best known for Endless Love, a novel that immerses its readers in an intense, visceral meditation on first love, one much richer and...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 6, 20185 min read
Q and A with Donald Evans, author of the new story collection, An Off-White Christmas
1. Tell us a little about your story collection. There are 12 short stories, all set on or around Christmas. The voice and settings for...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Q and A with Kathleen Rooney, author of LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK
From the book jacket: "She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Q and A with Ian Morris, Author of SIMPLE MACHINES
1. Tell us a little about your new novel. Simple Machines is a novel of myth and ritual, telling a story of Wisconsin dating from the...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 2, 20189 min read
Q and A with Patricia Ann McNair about her new essay collection, And These Are the Good Times
Tell us a little about your new book. And These Are the Good Times is a collection of essays and brief memoir pieces; riffs, I like to...
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Christine Sneed
Nov 2, 20185 min read
Q and A with Laura Pritchett about her new book, Making Friends with Death
1. Tell us a little about Making Friends with Death: A Field Guide for Your Impending Last Breath. This book is simply a how-to/guide...
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