David Abrams's Blog, page 35
November 10, 2017
Friday Freebie: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Congratulations to Jennifer Oleson Boyd, winner of last week’s Friday Freebie: Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s debut collection of short stories To Lay To Rest Our Ghosts .
This week’s contest is for the new Penguin Classics edition of Picnic at Hanging Rock , the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay which inspired the riveting, haunting, and unforgettable 1975 film by Peter Weir. The new Penguin edition includes an introduction by Maile Meloy (author of Do Not Become Alarmed ). Keep scrolling for more informat...
November 5, 2017
Sunday Sentence: The Smoke of Horses by Charles Rafferty
Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.
Famous people have been dying all week, and the Christmas tree just stopped drinking.
“Forecast” from The Smoke of Horses by Charles Rafferty
November 3, 2017
Friday Freebie: To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
Congratulations to Jane Rainey, winner of last week’s Friday Freebie: Freebird by Jon Raymond.
This week, I am especially pleased to offer up a copy of Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s debut collection of short stories To Lay To Rest Our Ghosts to one lucky reader. Here’s what Peter Geye, author of Wintering, had to say about the book: “It’s been a long time since I read a collection of stories that amazed me from cover to cover, but that’s what Caitlin Summie’s To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts did. W...
October 30, 2017
My First Time: Melissa Fraterrigo
My First Time
is a regular feature in which writers talk about virgin experiences in their writing and publishing careers, ranging from their first rejection to the moment of holding their first published book in their hands. Today’s guest is Melissa Fraterrigo, author of the novel
Glory Days
, now out from the University of Nebraska Press. Melissa also wrote the short story collection
The Longest Pregnancy
. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in more than forty literary journals and ant...
October 29, 2017
Sunday Sentence: The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.
Since their argument, they have addressed one another with the caution of a bare foot avoiding shards of glass.
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
October 27, 2017
Friday Freebie: Freebird by Jon Raymond
Congratulations to John Smith, winner of last week’s Friday Freebie: the new novel by Eric Rickstad, The Names of Dead Girls .
This week’s contest is for Freebird , a novel by Jon Raymond which came out earlier this year from Graywolf Press. I have a new hardcover copy of the book to give away to one lucky reader. Here’s what Benjamin Percy (author of The Dark Net) had to say about the novel: “No one writes sentences so graceful and characters so achingly real as Jon Raymond. Sometimes sad, som...
October 23, 2017
My First Time: Roz Morris
My First Time
is a regular feature in which writers talk about virgin experiences in their writing and publishing careers, ranging from their first rejection to the moment of holding their first published book in their hands. Today’s guest is Roz Morris, author of
Not Quite Lost: Travels Without A Sense of Direction
. Roz is an award-nominated novelist (
My Memories of a Future Life
,
Lifeform Three
), book doctor to award-winning writers, has sold 4 million books as a ghostwriter and teache...
October 22, 2017
Sunday Sentence: The Smoke of Horses by Charles Rafferty
Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.
The sunlight in the leaves is dazzling and wild, sharp as broken vodka bottles.
“An Adulterous Spring” from The Smoke of Horses by Charles Rafferty
October 20, 2017
Friday Freebie: The Names of Dead Girls by Eric Rickstad
Congratulations to Michael Cooper, winner of last week’s Friday Freebie: the Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Everything You Need to Know About Nightmares and How to Defeat Them by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller.
This week’s contest is for the new novel by Eric Rickstad, The Names of Dead Girls . I have a signed copy ready to put in one lucky reader’s hands. Here’s what others have been saying about the book: “Eric Rickstad is the rare writer who can wrap a d...
October 16, 2017
My First Time: Eric Rickstad
My First Time is a regular feature in which writers talk about virgin experiences in their writing and publishing careers, ranging from their first rejection to the moment of holding their first published book in their hands. Today’s guest is Eric Rickstad, the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of The Canaan Crime Series: Lie in Wait , The Silent Girls , and, his newest novel, The Names of Dead Girls . Dark, disturbing and compulsively readable psychological thrille...
