SUSAN HENDERSON is a contributor to NPR’s newest literary venture, DimeStories, produced by Jay Allison of This I Believe, and is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Her work has—twice—been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
William Maxwell, Tim O'Brien, Homer, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Cornelius Eady, Carson McCullers, George Saunders, Aimee Bender, Jean Toomer, David Sedaris, J.M. Coetzee, Nicole Krauss, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Etheridge Knight, Virgil, Harper Lee
What I'm Reading
This month, I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Donna Tartt's The Little Friend, A. Manette Ansay's Limbo, Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking, and I'm currently reading Jodi Picoult's Vanishing Acts.
Lac Su left his homeland of Vietnam under gunfire, and at age five, began his life in America in an apartment teeming with drugs and prostitutes. His memoir, I LOVE YOUS ARE FOR WHITE PEOPLE, tells the story of his search for a sense of worth and belonging from a violent father and local gangs. It’s a harrowing story, but told with heart, humor, and wisdom. I’m glad to have Lac here to ...
Today, I’d like you to meet Ann Kingman, a book lover, blogger, and District Sales Manager for one of the major publishing houses. We’ll be talking about what she does with your books in that window of time between turning in your final edits and seeing your book for sale. She’ll also share her opinion about the current crisis in the publishing industry and the important role of independent ...
Do you remember, when you were a kid, what it was like to walk through the cafeteria with your lunch tray or walk down the aisle of the bus, and kids are putting coats and backpacks across the empty seats so you can’t sit down? Remember that feeling? Or, say, you’re walking down the hallway at school and some girl comes up behind you and cuts a foot-long section of your hair off while her ...
