Host of the Las Vegas Writer's Conference
October's Book Club selection is On Chesil Beach by Ian McIwan. From the publisher: The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s wedding night. It is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the […]
November's Book Club selection is Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. From the Publisher: In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf details Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess, exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. The novel "contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive […]
December's Book Club selection is Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron. From the publisher: It’s every novelist’s greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, […]
January's Book Club selection is What Immortal Hand by Johnny Worthen From the publisher: Michael is called of God; just not that God. What begins as a routine investigation of a hijacked truck turns into a desperate and personal quest for memories, faith, and meaning. The answers to these, for Michael Oswald, like the strangled […]
February's Book Club selection is This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett From the publisher: Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. […]
March's Book Club selection is Negotiating with the Dead: A writer on writing by Margaret Atwood From the publisher: An ambitious inquiry into the art of writing and an unprecedented insider’s view of the writer’s universe, from the beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale. What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he […]
April’s Book Club selection is The Business of Being a Writer by Las Vegas Writer's Conference keynote speaker Jane Friedman. From the publisher: Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality […]
May's book club pick is Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee. From the publisher: Two sisters: Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the vibrant, headstrong, unconventional one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts to hear voices, it's Miranda who must […]
