It's hard to imagine anyone accusing Lionel Shriver of being a timid writer.
I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.
Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.
The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.
The only responsible way to write about anything is with honesty.
