FACTS are stranger than HISTORICAL FICTION

#NOBEL – THE NOVEL! JUST OUT: THREE WOMEN AND ALFRED NOBEL. My new novel, based on the correspondence between Nobel and his Vien...

#AMREADING MARTHA BAILLIE, THE INCIDENT REPORT When an incident happens in a library, the librarian must fill out a report. Baill...

#AMREADING CALLAN WINK, A REFUGEE CRISIS I don’t normally write about short stories, but this one (NYer August 20) got to me. The...

#AMREADING GAEL FAYE, SMALL COUNTRY This is the coming-of-age story of a boy living through the Rwandan civil war, but also of his p...

#AMREADING EDOUARD LOUIS, HISTORY OF VIOLENCE This is a “nonfiction novel” describing the author’s experience of rape and attempted ...