Dec 30th, 2008 · For many people seeking answers through genetic testing, all the DNA probing ends in this twist: Less certainty, not more. This sometimes leads to tough personal decisions, like those made by Nashville novelist Susan Gregg Gilmore and her family.
Dec 23rd, 2008 · Over 30 years ago, Midwestern writer David Rhodes published three much-praised novels in quick succession. But he went silent after a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed. Now he has published a new book: Driftless.
Dec 16th, 2008 · In Payback, a timely collection of essays, novelist Margaret Atwood examines the ancient and central role that debt has played in our culture, literature and societies.
Dec 16th, 2008 · In a new memoir, Carrie Fisher — actress, novelist and self-described daughter of "Hollywood inbreeding" — writes about her tumultuous life as showbiz royalty. In Wishful Drinking, Fisher discusses her bipolar disorder, addictions and divorce — and still manages to laugh.
Dec 13th, 2008 · It takes the gifts of a novelist to fathom the Governor Rod Blagojevich story this week: a fresh-faced governor accused of putting President-elect Obama's seat in the U.S. Senate up for sale. NPR's Scott Simon talks with novelist, former federal prosecutor and fellow Chicago native Scott Turow, about this week in Illinois politics and how truth IS stranger than fiction. (4:00)
Dec 10th, 2008 · For several decades, filmmakers, novelists, musicians and TV writers have been imagining what life would be like in the U.S. with a black commander-in-chief. Salon writer Louis Bayard compares fictional black presidents to the president-elect.
Dec 2nd, 2008 · Drawing on tales from her grandmother's life, debut novelist Padma Viswanathan depicts the intense social and political changes of the past century in India in The Toss of a Lemon.
Nov 15th, 2008 · When a first-time novelist hears his work compared to Saul Bellow, Virginia Wolfe, William Faulkner, even James Joyce, it must be both gratifying, and daunting. Such is the case with Salvatore Scibona, whose novel The End is a finalist for the National Book Award.