Julie Buxbaum is the author of THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE. Her debut novel has been sold in eighteen different countries, has been picked for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer's Program, and is a February 2008 Book Sense Pick.
Just wanted to let you all know that my second novel, AFTER YOU, is now available in stores! If you haven't checked it out yet, here's what Jodi Picoult had to say about AFTER YOU:""Buxbaum writes with honesty and grace about the things we know about our friends and the things we wish we didn't. After You highlights—beautifully and compellingly—the truth that sometimes we have to ...
So remember when I hit you all up for votes because The Opposite of Love made it onto the short list for Books to Talk About 2009? Well, THANK YOU! Because of your support, I have now made the short-short list of ten books.But now, I NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN! Voting starts all over for the big prize, so those of you who voted, please, please take a moment to vote again. Those who haven't, now's your ...
I wonder how many of us have a phantom city from our past? You know that place that you run to and run from in equal measure? Below, a beautiful and haunting passage from Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye: "I'm not like this in other places, not this bad. I shouldn't have come back here, to this city that has it in for me. I thought I could stare it down. But it still has power; like a ...