Indie Next List Interview

18 Oct

Alice Hoffman on Faithful, November’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Here, bestselling author Alice Hoffman talks about balancing heartbreak and hope in her new novel, Faithful, as well as the theme of survival and its new significance in her life.

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16 Sep

A Q&A With Brit Bennett, Author of October’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Brit Bennett’s debut novel, The Mothers, is “an honest, modern, and triumphant book” that explores the kind of salvation “that comes with self-acceptance and growth,” said Women & Children First’s Jamie Thomas.

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17 Aug

Ann Patchett on “Commonwealth,” September’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Ann Patchett talks to BTW about her seventh novel, Commonwealth, which examines how one chance encounter irrevocably changed the course of two families’ lives. 

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15 Jul

Jacqueline Woodson on Another Brooklyn, August’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Jacqueline Woodson’s first title for adults in 20 years is “a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel of a young girl’s coming-of-age in Brooklyn,” said Nicole Yasinsky of The Booksellers at Laurelwood.

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21 Jun

Author Ben H. Winters on Underground Airlines, July’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters imagines a present-day America in which the Civil War never happened and slavery is still practiced in four Southern states.

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18 May

A Q&A With Emma Cline, Author of June’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Debut novelist Emma Cline explores the darker side of adolescence in The Girls, the number one pick of independent booksellers for the June 2016 Indie Next List.

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29 Apr

Elizabeth J. Church on The Atomic Weight of Love, May’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Here, author Elizabeth J. Church discusses the unique experience of growing up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, and how her youth shaped and inspired her debut novel, The Atomic Weight of Love.

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25 Mar

A Q&A With Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Author of April’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s debut novel, The Nest, the number one Indie Next List pick for April, is “funny, thoughtful, and filled with unique and complex characters,” said Jennifer Oleinik of University Book Store in Seattle.

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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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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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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 Sep

A Q&A With Lauren Groff, Author of October’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

Booksellers have chosen Lauren Groff’s cleverly crafted novel Fates and Furies as their top pick for October’s Indie Next List. Groff’s critically acclaimed work, which has been long-listed for the National Book Award, tells the story of a marriage in which not all is as it seems.

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