BTW Interviews

01 Mar

Joshilyn Jackson on March’s #1 Indie Next List Pick, The Opposite of Everyone

Author Joshilyn Jackson talks about the integral role indie booksellers have played in her career, the process of creating the tough and impassioned character Paula Vauss, and what she’s got coming up next. 

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23 Feb

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Sunil Yapa

Sunil Yapa is the author of Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, a Winter/Spring 2016 Indies Introduce debut novel. “I closed the book with the feeling that if we can truly open our hearts to understanding and forgiveness, there is hope for all of us,” said Anmiryam Budner of Main Point Books.

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03 Feb

Melanie Benjamin on “The Swans of Fifth Avenue,” February’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

The Swans of Fifth Avenue, which evokes Truman Capote’s entrée into socialite Babe Paley’s rarified life and his ultimate betrayal of her, is a “fun, kind of gossipy read” that author Melanie Benjamin hopes readers will enjoy.

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13 Jan

Bookseller Ashley Warlick Hits the February Indie Next List With Novel About M.F.K. Fisher

Ashley Warlick, a novelist, food magazine editor, and co-founder and buyer at M. Judson Booksellers & Storytellers, felt honored when her novel The Arrangement was selected by her fellow booksellers for the February 2016 Indie Next List. 

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08 Jan

A Q&A With Katarina Bivald, Author of January’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Katarina Bivald, author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend: A Novel, discusses the inspiration for her debut title and her love of indie bookstores and small-town America.

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02 Dec

A Q&A With Poet Donald Hall, Author of December’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Booksellers’ top Indie Next List pick for December is The Selected Poems of Donald Hall by the former U.S. Poet Laureate. Hall selected what he considers the best of his poems for this collection, representing 70 years’ work.

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19 Nov

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Mark Thornton

Mark Thornton is the author of Kid Moses, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce debut novel, which Elayna Trucker of Napa Bookmine called “a fascinating, moving, and damning look at child poverty and homelessness in modern Africa.”

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11 Nov

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Adam Shaughnessy

Adam Shaughnessy is the author of The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce pick for middle-grade readers, which Kathleen McGonagle of Buttonwood Books & Toys called “an entertaining and engaging mixture of adventure, sleuthing, and mythology.” 

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05 Nov

Author B.A. Shapiro on “The Muralist,” November’s #1 Indie List Next Pick

Here, author B.A. Shapiro talks about the making of The Muralist and how she blended fact with fiction to create a detailed look at the birth of Abstract Expressionism during the Depression.

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30 Oct

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Kate Scelsa

Kate Scelsa is the author of Fans of the Impossible Life, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce title for young adults, which features a trio of friends that Laura Donohoe of Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café called “three of the most interesting and authentic young adult voices I have ever read.”

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