First I'd like to invite you to check out a new backstory for THRILLER: Stories To Keep You Up All Night edited by James Patterson. 30 stories from 32 of today's best thriller writers including: David Morrell, Gayle Lynds, Doug Preston & Lincoln Child, Heather Grahm, Alex Kava, John Lescroart, Steve Berry, Eric Van Lustbader, F. Paul Wilson, David Liss, Katherine Neville and more (including me.) - MJR
In her own words: Roxana Robinson is a literary polymath (can that be the right phrase?) who writes novels, short stories, biography, essays, reviews, travel pieces and op-eds.
She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vogue and elsewhere.
Her latest novel, Sweetwater, was a NYT Notable Book, a BookSense pick, and included in the Chicago Tribune's Best Fiction list. Her latest story collection, A Perfect Stranger, link was a NYT Editors' Choice, and included in Summer Fiction lists at the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and NPR
Her work is included in the just-published anthology about stepfamilies, "Your Father Married My Mother," edited by Anne Burt. link and in the much-discussed collection, "This Is Not Chick-Lit," edited by Elizabeth Merrick, coming out in August.
Here's what I will be reading this summer:
1. A Student of Living Things, a novel by Susan Shreve. Shreve is a thoughtful and beautiful writer, and I trust her absolutely to tell the truth about the family, and how that truth works within the context of the larger world.
2. The Keep, by Jennifer Egan. Egan is a novelist who sees the world in beautifully complex ways. Her fiction is powerful, intelligent and riveting, driven as much by philosophy and politics as it is by emotion.
3. The Dogs that Found Me, by Ken Foster. I confess that I've already read this but will do so again. It is utterly beguiling, about our hopeless love affair with dogs, and what it can really mean in our lives.
4. The Last Secrets of the Silk Road, by Countess alexandra Tolstoy. I'm going riding in the Mongolian steppes this summer, so this is research. Alexandra, (yes, Count Leo's descendant,) rode the entire Silk Road on horseback, with three friends, and this is her story.
5. The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud. Messud has an utterly original voice and is one of the few novelists I know who can write about any country, any cultural group, with absolute authority and authenticity. And she's brilliant.
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