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Excerpt of Spent Saints, by Brian Smith
Eye for Sin I climbed into the passenger seat and Tinkles lifted the pint of Southern Comfort from between his legs and offered me a shot. Took a good chug, handed it back and twisted an air...
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Brian Smith: The TNB Self-Interview
I imagine you are very used to seeing your words in print after nearly two decades as a journalist and columnist. In fact, I saw you contributed music essays to two books published earlier this year....
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Excerpt of Pax Americana, by Kurt Baumeister
Commercial Wisdom Ravelton Parlay was a wealthy man and a rational, even calculating one. But that didn’t mean he was beyond belief either in theory or in practice. The guy had faith in spades. Not...
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Kurt Baumeister: The TNB Self-Interview
Kurt Baumeister (KGB) vs. Kurt Baumeister’s Doppelganger (2.0) Kurt Baumeister’s debut novel, a satirical spy thriller entitled Pax Americana (Stalking Horse Press), was released into the wild on...
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Excerpt of The Gypsy Moth Summer, by Julia Fierro
He jogged through the woods, Champ lunging ahead and leaping on and off the trail leading to the Castle. “Quiet, dummy. You’ll give us away.” He hadn’t wanted to bring the shepherd, but he’d been...
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Excerpt of Florence in Ecstasy, by Jessie Chaffee
“Signorina.” Signora Rosa. Such a delicate name. She must be someone’s grandmother, stout and soft with a halo of white hair; this had tricked me into thinking that she would be soft with me. But she...
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Jessie Chaffee: The TNB Self-Interview
Florence in Ecstasy is your first novel—when you began it, did you know it was going to be a novel? I tricked myself into starting Florence in Ecstasy–or got tricked into it. While in the MFA program...
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Excerpt of Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer, by Charlene Ball
October 1576 “No! I won’t go!” Emilia shouted, kicking at the rushes on the floor. “Stop that and come here, Emilia!” Her mother held out her arms. Emilia stomped around the room, shouting, “No, no!”...
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Charlene Ball: The TNB Self-Interview
Did you write your novel about Emilia Bassano Lanyer because you disagreed with a professor? Well, I heard a talk about Emilia by A.L. Rowse, a British historian who gave a lecture at UGA when I was in...
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TNB Original Fiction: “Bonita” by Linnie Greene
He started his morning shift with six different Sara(h)s, an auspicious sign for a Wednesday. They booked the shuttle on the app and he watched, incredulously, as they piled in one at a time, a grand...
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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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