by Clea | Jul 16, 2010 | Boston Phoenix
Monday morning, I was sick as a dog but I had one un-missable appoint: a phone interview with Naomi Novik. Novik, you may already know, is the author of the Temeraire novels: Napoleonic-era fantasy, only set in an alternative world with intelligent, sensitive dragons....
by Clea | Jul 12, 2010 | Boston Phoenix
My review in the Boston Phoenix:”Frank Mackey’s life changed when he was 19. The year was 1985, and he and his girlfriend Rosie Daly were about to run away together. Growing up in Faithful Place, one of working-class Dublin’s more depressed byways,...
by Clea | Apr 16, 2010 | Boston Phoenix
I review Yann Martel’s latest, “Beatrice and Virgil,” in the Boston Phoenix:In contemporary literature, the Holocaust is the okapi in the room: looming and somehow irresistible. Such, at least, appears to be the thesis of Beatrice and Virgil, Yann...
by Clea | May 5, 2009 | Boston Phoenix
Really. I thought it was a great spoof of Austen’s style and content and I’m not afraid to say so in public (or, really, in The Boston Phoenix.
by Clea | Dec 5, 2008 | Boston Phoenix
Long-time friends Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky didn’t set out to write a bodice ripper in Blindspot (Spiegel & Grau). But when the two historians – Lepore is the David Woods Kemper professor of American history at Harvard and Kamensky is chair of...
by Clea | Aug 6, 2008 | Boston Phoenix
Two weeks ago, I got to interview Tana French for the Boston Phoenix. The Edgar-winning author of In the Woods was in town promoting The Likeness, her second smart psychological mystery, and we had a good chat over coffee in the elegant Oak Room. I got to pick the...
