LITERARY SORCERY
The adroit talespinner is at the height of his powers in his latest novel, in which magic, the past, and the future conspire to turn the present inside out.
Susan Salter Reynolds is a writer and book critic. She is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times.
Born Storyteller
The prolific author Terry Tempest Williams turns every interview into a conversation, as Susan Salter Reynolds discovers.
This week: the great William Kennedy returns with a Cuban adventure, an inventive look at a man’s discovery of his father, a dystopian take on Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, and coming of age with no where to go.
From the Manhattan of Andy Warhol to gypsy camps in France, novelist Fernanda Eberstadt has made her life exploring unusual settings. She speaks to Susan Salter Reynolds about her own journey and her stunning new novel, Rat.