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Jewish Community Voice recommends A Town of Empty Rooms

Posted on May 29, 2013 by karen

Read the Jewish Community Voice summer reading list here.

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Interview with Barbara Bush at WHQR

Posted on May 21, 2013 by karen

Barbara Bush at WHQR talks to me about A Town of Empty Rooms. You can listen to the interview here.

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New story “Sent” is Narrative’s Story of the Week.

Posted on May 19, 2013 by karen

You can read the story here. 

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“Eternal Love” in Missouri Review’s National Short Story Month Celebration

Posted on May 13, 2013 by karen

Dionne Irving writes about my story “Eternal Love” for the Missouri Review’s celebration of National Short Story Month. You can read her post here.

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Tikkun reviews A Town of Empty Rooms

Posted on May 7, 2013 by karen

Tikkun magazine reviews A Town of Empty Rooms. You can read the review here.

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Teaching at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in June!

Posted on April 27, 2013 by karen

I’ll be teaching two courses at the always wonderful Iowa Writing Festival in June. June 16-21, I’ll be teaching the week-long course, Re-Visioning Your Story, and June 22-23 the weekend course, From Fact to Fiction.  You can find out more … Continue reading →

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Chatham County Line on “A Town of Empty Rooms”

Posted on April 13, 2013 by karen

“It’s this complexity, the incommunicability of our pain, that makes us unreachable to one another…this novel conveys the problem; it is also, in its unsentimental sensitivity, a kind of corrective.”  Read the review here.

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Los Angeles Times Book Festival Panel Schedule

Posted on March 26, 2013 by karen

Looking forward to my panel at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival! I’ll be part of the panel “The Home Front” on Saturday, April 20, 3:30 pm, at the Annenberg Auditorium at USC. You can see the schedule for the … Continue reading →

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Julian Callos’ illustrations for my essay “The Accidental Writer”

Posted on March 24, 2013 by karen

Julian Callos shares his process of coming up with the drawings that illustrated my New York Times essay, “The Accidental Writer.” You can see the drawings here.

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Interview with Emily Kramer of Litwrap

Posted on March 16, 2013 by karen

I talk to the website Litwrap about point of view and process. You can read the interview here.

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Interview with Susan Wingate of the blog radio talk show Dialogue Between the Lines

Posted on February 14, 2013 by karen

You can listen to the interview here.

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Talking to the Los Angeles Times about A Town of Empty Rooms

Posted on February 8, 2013 by karen

You can read my interview with David Ulin for the Los Angeles Times  here.

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“The Accidental Writer”

Posted on January 27, 2013 by karen

A rock made me into a writer. You can find out how this happened in my essay “The Accidental Writer,” which appeared in the Sunday New York Times Book Review, here. 

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Essay “The Accidental Writer” appears in Sunday New York Times Book Review

Posted on January 27, 2013 by karen

When I was six years old, I was hit on the head with a rock. How did this lead to my life as a writer? Read my essay here.

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“An outstanding new novel…” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution review

Posted on January 18, 2013 by karen

Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Review here. 

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