“My adult life before becoming a published novelist was like the questing roots that grow wide and far to suck in the moisture and minerals that make the apple tree’s limbs blossom. The deeper and richer and greater the roots, the stronger the tree, the healthier the flower.” Experience Required: Growing the Roots, an…(Read More)
Anne will offer two half-day fiction-writing seminars at Grub Street in Boston this summer: a seminar on Creating Great Beginnings, on July 12; and a seminar on Writing the Political Story, on July 13. All are welcome! For detailed information about the courses, including content, times, location, and cost, look here…(Read More)
I’ll be reading from An Unexpected Guest, followed by a Q&A and signing, in NYC on Tuesday, May 14, at the last Pen Parentis Literary Salon of this season. Also reading from recent work will be authors Joanna Hershon, Helen Phillips and Jennifer Cody-Epstein. On the second floor of the Andaz…(Read More)
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)
