“Have you ever smoked a joint and read Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’ in a very hot bath, reveling in a single, rich paragraph for what feels like an hour?” says the novelist, whose new book is “Time’s Mouth.” “If not, may I suggest you try it?”
Ann Patchett's ninth novel, 'Tom Lake,' distills the soul of her work and her life her welcoming bookstore, her fear of distractions and her lack of regrets.
In Caitlin Shetterly's novel 'Pete and Alice in Maine' a financier and his family flee New York City's 2020 COVID emergency and struggle to stay together.