Kelly’s Comments (group member since Dec 06, 2008)

Kelly’s comments from the Author Interviews: Loaded Questions group.

Here is a link to the recent Loaded Questions interview with author Scott Lasser in which he discusses his newest novel "The Year that Follows", writing a novel that deals with September 11th and the rigors of a book tour.

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Here is a link to the recent Loaded Questions interview with author Elinor Lipman in which she discusses her newest novel "The Family Man", her feelings about the term "chick lit" and novels turned into motion pictures.

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I just finished an interview with the insanely interesting and equally talented Rivka Galchen about her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances. This was a book that I was immediately enthralled with and knew that I wanted to chat with Rivka. We discuss her father, the ominous scientist Tzvi Gal-Chen, her love of science and its role in the novel and some of the many quirky tendencies of this very interesting authors.

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I just recently published an interview with Hannah Tinti in which we discuss The Good Thief, the research she did on 19th New England society and treachery and the writing of the Dickensian adventure story that is her debut novel, The Good Thief.

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Here is a link to my brand new interview with Kate Furnivall the bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and her newest novel, The Red Scarf (in UK Under a Red Blood Sky). Kate and I chat about her discovery of her family's flight from Russia, research on Stalinist Russia and the announcement of the completion of her sequel to The Russian Concubine, The Girl from Junchow (UK The Concubine's Secret).

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Kelly Hewitt
Loaded Questions

The interview with Wally Lamb was going so well that it became clear during our chat that there would be more than enough content for two-part interview. In the second half of the interview Lamb discusses some of the strange coincidences that have lead him to make major plot decisions, the movie rights and attached stars of his previous two novels and his process of comparing different themes that seem to having nothing in common in order to get an idea for a story.

Here is the link to the full interview:

Read Part II of my Exclusive Interview with author Wally Lamb.

Kelly

I was really quite nervous to chat on the phone with Wally Lamb last week. This is the infamous interview that almost never happened -- three times. Wally's publicist at Harper kept trying to get us to talk while he was on his tour and things kept falling through. I was calling New Orleans, Philadelphia, all over the place. After a series of mishaps we finally got a chance to talk one Wally was safely at home.

Here is a link to the interview:
Interview with Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed

Wally was very easy to talk with and had so much to say that we ended up dividing the interview into two parts.

Has anyone else been reading the new book? The reviews at Amazon have been a mixed bag - some people loving it, others panning it without many falling somewhere in the middle.


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