Inventor of Detective Arkady Renko who first appeared in “Gorky Park,” Martin Cruz Smith recounts his latest adventures in Moscow and points east and what it’s like to write a novel with Parkinson’s disease and a stack of New Yorkers. […]
Booktalk: A Tribute to Kent Haruf
A tribute to Kent Haruf who wrote his award-winning novels on an old typewriter in a writing shed in his family’s back yard. Kent Haruf died a few days ago. This 2013 interview is about his last book, Benediction, the […]
Neverhome: Women Soldiers in The Civil War
Best-selling Colorado author Laird Hunt looks at women who disguised themselves as men to fight in the civil war in his new novel Neverhome. In it, protagonist Ash, whose real name is Constance, leaves her husband, Bartholomew and their farm in […]