Stefani Deoul Interview
By Editor Alexandra Wolfe | Filed under Interviews
TV producer, turned author, Stefani Deoul talks to us about herself, and her writing
Rehoboth area resident and long-time television producer Stefani Deoul (Dresden Files, Missing, Dead Zone) may be up in Canada producing the new television series Haven for the SyFy network, but she’s also flying back and forth to the U.S. to promote her debut novel The Carousel, published by A&M Books (www.aandmbooks.com).
First of all, Stefani, I wonder if you could just give us some background about yourself for our readers.
I was born in Brooklyn, grew up on Long Island in New York, and went to the University of Maryland to study film and right after graduating drove across the country to Los Angeles, California determined to “make movies”. I worked my way up to “producer” and realized while I love producing, I also needed to write.
Tags: a&m books, Interviews, lesbian-fiction, stefani deoul, the carousel, tv-producer
“Room” For Donoghue
By Editor Alexandra Wolfe | Filed under Authors, Book Releases
Longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Emma Donoghue’s latest novel is a compelling tale of five-year-old Jack and his mother, who live in a single small room. Their only contact with the outside world is through a mysterious figure known only as Old Nick. Emotionally intense, poignant yet funny, and superbly written, ROOM explores such issues as a child’s perception of reality, a mother’s desperate need for freedom, and the sometimes heartbreaking quest for normalcy.
This one has already gone on my wish list!
Tags: emma donoghue, literary-fiction, novels, room
Heat!
By Jennifer Harris | Filed under Columns, Poetry
It’s the 28th consecutive day over 80 degrees in Chicago. The most in 140 years. Everyone is hot, hot, hot. It’s funny to watch the reactions: those who are grouchy and worn down, sweat stains, the bits of sweat on the forehead, the constant glare. I feel exhilarated. I am a lizard. I love to bask in the heat. Let it fall over me, down to my toes. When I think of heat I think of my lover. My husband/hersband. What do you call a butch husband? I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Wife seems to take away one’s butch identity. I could be wrong but it doesn’t seem right. It doesn’t feel right. I am the wife and I don’t even like the term.
Tags: husbands, identity, wife, wives
Lucy Jane Bledsoe Interview
By Nairne Holtz | Filed under Featured, Interviews
Women explore new territory in Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s fiction.
In her latest novel, The Big Bang Symphony (University of Wisconsin, 2010), three women—a composer, a cook, and a scientist—work together in Antarctica where the extreme climate exposes people to each other and themselves. In an earlier novel, Working Parts (Seal, 1997), the frontier is closer to home—adult literacy classes at the protagonist’s local library—yet equally challenging. Not only does the protagonist have to learn to read, she has to learn to be honest with people. In Biting the Apple (Carroll & Graf, 2007), the charismatic heroine, a motivational speaker and secret kleptomaniac, doesn’t push boundaries so much as cross them. But when one ex-lover refuses to bail her out and another stalks her, the protagonist is forced to decide which of her reinvented selves is authentic.
The complicated relationships in these novels do not necessarily end happily, but hope is present in the form of emotional growth for the flawed yet sympathetic characters. Lucy Jane’s books are also exceptionally well crafted and full of sly humor. She is, deservedly, a recent recipient of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, as well as a four-time Lambda Literary finalist and one-time winner of the Stonewall Book Award.
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Tags: big bang symphony, Interviews, lesbian-fiction, lucy jane bledsoe, nairne holtz
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