I had the fun of interviewing fellow American author Jennie Fields for Laurel Zuckerman’s Paris Web log about her new novel, which also focuses considerably on the Rue de Varenne in Paris. For very different reasons from An Unexpected Guest, as it turned out… To read more, look here…(Read More)
My latest fiction publication is a short story called “Jimmy Way and the House at the End of the Road” in the 2013 issue of Consequence magazine. Consequence is a terrific international literary magazine focused on the culture of war, and “Jimmy Way” is about the unusual relationship between an ambition Brooklyn teenager and a…(Read More)
Katya Pantzar of Blue Wings, the Finnair inflight publication, had this to say about An Unexpected Guest: “Exquisitely written… it has been compared by reviewers to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Korkeakivi’s sensibility is also reminiscent of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-prize winning The Hours, in its universal themes of memory, morality, and social…(Read More)
Some people say Things Fall Apart, by the late great Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, is the most important African novel; I’d say it’s one of the most important contemporary novels, without qualification. Often compared to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, I see Shakespeare’s King Lear, transported to a small African village…(Read More)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s debut novel beautifully marries a sensitive family and coming-of-age story with a world of political turmoil. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, is if anything even better. The good news is 2013 sees a new novel coming out, Americanah…(Read More)
Nigerian Jesuit priest Uwem Akpan’s debut collection of five not-so-short stories is an eye-opener. Encompassing a number of different African nations–Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopa, Rwanda–and important…(Read More)
The Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace (D.N.A.) newspaper in the region of Alsace in eastern France says work on An Unexpected Guest began in its main city, Strasbourg. True! “…An Unexpected Guest brings suspense into the world of the diplomat. Using ordinary heroes, Anne Korkeakivi pulls the strings of an intrigue they cannot…(Read More)
For two just confirmed new events in early March – in Switzerland and France – please check out the website’s events page…(Read More)
Nights & Weekends blog named An Unexpected Guest a best book for 2012. To see the full list, look here…(Read More)
In this short story (1908 version) by Jack London, a man travels alone – but for a husky dog – along Canada’s Yukon trail, at less than -55 degree weather. I won’t say more, other than that reading this story as a young girl left me traumatized. I may still be getting over it…(Read More)
