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Excerpt of Empire of Glass, by Kaitlin Solimine
Translator’s Note You never enter Beijing the same way twice. For centuries this was a hidden, forbidden empire: nine gates through which to pass, each with a melliferous name (Gate of Peace, Gate of...
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Kaitlin Solimine: The TNB Self-Interview
Hi, it’s nice to meet you. I didn’t realize how different you’d look in person. You’re nothing like your author photo. Yeah, I’ve aged a bit. Also, I had a baby. That’s cool. Wait, I think I knew you...
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Excerpt of So Many Olympic Exertions, by Anelise Chen
Mom comes to pick me up at the airport. She pulls up to the curb in a beat-up Camry, my old car when I was in high school. There’s a fresh dent on the front bumper and a long, black scratch on the...
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Anelise Chen: The TNB Self-Interview
Where are you? I’m at Legend Upper West because it’s the only establishment within a one-mile radius of campus that isn’t swarming with undergrads. It’s the first day of school. Their excitement is too...
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Excerpt of A Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Winter 1944 Later, Evelyn would look back and remember that she wasn’t the one who noticed Renard first. No, it was her sister, Ruby, who caught the too-short right hem of his suit pants in her side...
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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton: The TNB Self-Interview
How did your early years in New Orleans influence your writing of A KIND OF FREEDOM? I lived in New Orleans until I was 12. Then my mom and I moved to Connecticut, but because my dad and most of my...
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Excerpt of The Disintegrations, by Alistair McCartney
Robert In some cultures, alluding to the dead is considered taboo. Even remembering them is forbidden. Above all, one must never utter the deceased individual’s name. Now that I think of it, I have...
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Alistair McCartney: The TNB Self-Interview
So The Disintegrations is a book about a man obsessed with death, who knows nothing about it and is trying to understand it. You call it a novel, yet most of the names that appear in the novel are...
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Excerpt of Gangster Nation, by Tod Goldberg
PROLOGUE NOVEMBER 2000 Peaches Pocotillo never got to kill anyone anymore. All those years he’d spent perfecting his craft had led to bigger and better things, which in this case meant a mid-level...
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Tod Goldberg: The TNB Self-Interview
What’s one memory that came into your mind recently that you haven’t thought about for ages? Weird memories come to me all the time – it helps to have siblings who like to remind you of the various...
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Excerpt of When It’s Over, by Barbara Ridley
Paris, January 1940 By the time Lena reached the British embassy, her feet ached, the sky was dark and overcast, and a cold wind whipped her face. She climbed the familiar stone steps and pushed...
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Barbara Ridley: The TNB Self-Interview
So, are you sitting comfortably? Yes, thank you. Then I’ll begin. Your novel, When It’s Over, is set in World War II. Does the world really need another WWII/Holocaust novel? Certainly, a lot of...
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Excerpt of This Is How It Begins, by Joan Dempsey
“I’m wracking brain, Izaac. Who is Stanley Brozek? This name is ringing a bell, but I cannot place it.” Izaac tapped the paper lightly against his thigh. “I don’t know. Come.” He tossed the newspaper...
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Joan Dempsey: The TNB Self-Interview
This is Fresh Air. I’m Terry Gross. My guest today is the acclaimed author, writing teacher and online entrepreneur whose debut novel, This Is How It Begins, is the best novel I’ve ever read in my...
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Excerpt of Here in Berlin, by Cristina García
PROLOGUE Lilacs were blooming in Cracauerplatz. The Visitor felt disoriented and alone, an outsider, lost without a map. Her atrophied German stuck in her throat. Thirty-one years had elapsed between...
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Cristina García: The TNB Self-Interview
Can you talk about the genesis of Here in Berlin? The idea began as an inquiry into the human fallout from Cuba’s long association with the Soviet bloc. I wanted to find the interesting stories from...
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Excerpt of The King of Lighting Fixtures, by Daniel A. Olivas
From “The Three Mornings of José Antonio Rincón” It is true that if pressed, José Antonio Rincón would have denied enjoying the experience because, regardless of the changes he endured during those...
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Daniel A. Olivas: The TNB Self-Interview
As with many writers, you majored in English literature in college. But unlike most, you did not go on for an MFA. Instead, you went to law school and have been practicing full-time for the last three...
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TNB Original Fiction: “Searching in Dust” by Ashley Perez
I turned on the lights and the bulbs clicked to life, trying their best to shine through layers of sticky dust. I ran up and down the rows of the university library’s basement, looking for the chrome...
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Excerpt of Kingdom of Women, by Rosalie Morales Kearns
Prologue: Make Straight the Paths Ciara Neal, bleary eyed at the bar, was vaguely aware that her friends had left. In fact, all the customers were gone except her, and still Fran didn’t call closing...
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