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Sheena Patel’s I’m A Fan

June’s Book Club pick is I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel. It’s a sharp, unsettling, often funny and brilliant debut that’s garnered a lot of richly deserved attention. The unnamed narrator, let’s call her X, is obsessive, with a distinctive voice that’s at once intimate and confrontational. She is Pepysian in her honesty, has no […]

In Conversation with Mark A. Radcliffe, Author of Three Gifts

Three Gifts is both heartfelt and funny. Which authors have influenced you when writing tragic and comedic scenes, and how do you balance these different tones? Thank you. Perhaps not a fashionable choice but I think Rachel Joyce writes heartfelt and witting well. I thought The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey was brilliantly poised and […]