Sarah McCoy is the author of “The Baker’s Daughter” and “The Time It Snowed In Puerto Rico.” “The Baker’s Daughter” was praised as a “beautiful heart-breaking gem of a novel” by Tatiana de Rosnay and a “thoughtful reading experience indeed” by Chris Bohjalian. It is a Doubleday/Literary Guild Book Club selection. Sarah has taught writing at… Continue Reading
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Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Leah Taylor
Leah Taylor Jefferson is the author of “Horses of the Presidents” as well as co-author of two travel guides on Africa. She is working on her next book, “The Adventures of Oreo and Algonquin – Civil War Horse Tails.” Leah lives with her husband Steve in West… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Gary Krist
Before turning to narrative nonfiction with “City of Scoundrels” and “The White Cascade,” Gary Krist published three novels and two short-story collections. He has written reviews for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Salon and the Washington Post, and his articles and stories have appeared in… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Laura McNeal… plus a CONTEST to win a signed copy of her latest book!
Laura Rhoton McNeal is the author of “Dark Water,” a 2010 finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the San Diego Book Award in young people’s literature. She holds an MA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and is the author, with her husband Tom, of four young adult novels: “Crooked” (winner… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 (and 2010 and 2011) featured author Sarah Pekkanen
Sarah Pekkanen is the author of two novels – “The Opposite of Me,” her best-selling 2010 debut, and “Skipping a Beat.” Her next novel, “These Girls,” will be released in March. Pekkanen writes a regular humor column for Bethesda Magazine, occasional book reviews for The Washington Post, and has… Continue Reading
Q&A with Featured Author Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the author of “The Silver Linings Playbook” and two young adult novels, “Sorta Like a Rock Star” and “Boy21.″ His work has received many honors—including a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention—and has been translated into several languages. The Weinstein Company and David O. Russell have adapted “The Silver Linings Playbook,” starring Robert De Niro,… Continue Reading
What Would Your Pen Name Be?
Earlier this week, the Picador Book Club posted the following graphic on its Facebook page. We asked some of our committee members what their pen names would be. Behold…. Kesey-Dickens-Fitzgerald-Shelly Webster Picoult Miles or Picoult Drummond Sparks Mateny Steinbeck Wyckoff Robbins Carroll Heights… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller’s debut novel is “The Song of Achilles,” a re-telling of the story of the hero of Greek mythology. Ms. Miller attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. She has also studied in the Dramaturgy department at Yale… Continue Reading
Recommended Political Reads for Kids
The recommended political reads for kids (ages 4-up) highlighted below are from Jennifer Nicholson , Media Specialist at Gaithersburg Elementary School . “What Does the President Look Like” by Jane Hampton Cook, Illustrated by Adam Ziskie This book explains how people would know what the president looked like at different times throughout history (painting, photograph, cartoons, newsreel, TV,… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Larry Doyle
Larry Doyle is one of America’s foremost humorists. 23His first novel, “I Love You, Beth Cooper” won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor – and that came on the heels of a four-year stint as a writer and producer of “The Simpsons.” Doyle’s latest book is “Deliriously Happy,” a collection of his humor… Continue Reading
