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Titty Twisternew

Journalist Florence Williams is enthralled by Breasts.

Charleston City Paper | Susan Cohen | 10-31-2012 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer wins convertsnew

Looking at author Jonathan Safran Foer's body of work, one is struck by how heavy his topics of choice are. His first novel, Everything is Illuminated, was set in the charred landscape of a Holocaust-terrorized Jewish village. His second, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, deals with a boy who lost his father on 9/11.

Charleston City Paper | Elizabeth Pandolfi | 10-17-2012 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Memoir 'Traveling with Pomegranates' Offers European Reflectionsnew

Pomegranates goes back 11 years, when Sue Monk Kidd was contemplating trying fiction for the first time. Ann Kidd Taylor had just graduated college, suffering from depression with no clear picture for her life.

Charleston City Paper | Jonathan Sanchez | 09-09-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story, travel, family, memoir

Author Mary Alice Monroe Loves the Great Outdoorsnew

After The Beach House, researching environmental topics became a central part of Monroe's creative process, an approach she used for novels such as Skyward and Sweetgrass. In her most recent novel, some readers might come away from the book feeling as if they too have felt the sting of salt spray while standing at the bow of a shrimping troller.

Charleston City Paper | Cara Kelly | 07-22-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Last Light Over Carolina, Mary Alice Monroe

America's Best Sportswriter Goes Deepnew

Forget the title. Labels are deceiving. Smith is not a sportswriter. He's a storyteller, a translator of human emotions.

Charleston City Paper | John Strubel | 10-09-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: journalism, sports, Gary Smith, Going Deep: 20 Classic Sports Stories, sportswriting

How an Englishman Became America's Most Fearsome Book Criticnew

Normally a literary assassin, New Yorker book critic James Wood proves he's a softie at heart in his new book How Fiction Works.

Charleston City Paper | John Freeman | 08-20-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: New Yorker, How Fiction Works, James Wood

Hipster Homicide: Rayo Casablanca Explains What's Killing Him About The Scenenew

Set in Williamsburg, Hipsters takes off at breakneck speed with a snarl of characters and lifestyles. "I can't tell you how many times people have told me that they really liked reading about hipsters getting whacked," Casablanca says.

Charleston City Paper | Alli Marshall | 07-02-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: hipsters, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 6 Sick Hipsters, Kensington Publishing, Rayo Casablanca

Rick Bragg Completes His Family Saganew

In The Prince of Frogtown, the book he wrote to put the ghost of his own father to rest, Bragg concludes the set of family tales he began with All Over But the Shoutin' and expanded on in Ava's Man.

Charleston City Paper | Jason A. Zwiker | 05-28-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Rick Bragg, The Prince of Frogtown

A Clinton Primary Primernew

Biographer Carl Bernstein sees two sides in candidate's run for the White House.

Charleston City Paper | Greg Hambrick | 01-23-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Carl Bernstein

David Sedaris Is Taking Notesnew

While we're still months away from pulling out our Christmas tree, David Sedaris is sitting at his home in Paris, wrapping presents. The popular humorist will be stateside for a month as he tours the country with nightly readings of fresh material with his notoriously nasal, yet powdered delivery.

Charleston City Paper | Greg Hambrick | 10-03-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David Sedaris, NPR