In Nevil Shute’s 1950 novel, later made into a film, a young Englishwoman working as a secretary in what was then known as Malaya before being embroiled in WWII becomes involved with an Australian fellow prisoner of war. After the war is over, she decides to emigrate to Australia to find him then uses…(Read More)
Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction account of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini’s survival, adrift in an army-issue raft after his bomber crashed into the Pacific during WWII and then as a POW under the Japanese, as well as his eventual struggle to adapt to civilian life, is an extraordinarily well-written book about an extraordinary…(Read More)
Thank you to Jill Marsh and Book Muse for this graceful, on point review of Shining Sea and a Recommended Reading Award! “Woodstock and freedom; Vietnam and death; AIDS and counterculture; [Shining Sea] is an evocative yet concise American novel of self-discovery in which successive generations try to define themselves and their notions of…(Read More)
A big merci to everyone who joined me at the American Library in Paris on March 8, International Women’s Day, to hear a reading from and talk about Shining Sea as well as some thoughts on women in life and literature. What a fun, lively evening! A video of the event should be available…(Read More)
Montana-born, Paris-based author Janet Skeslien Charles invited me back on her blog, to talk about Shining Sea, writing craft, and my work plans for the future. I talked also about the importance of place to my fiction, the role of the writer in today’s world, and the gestation period of elephants. “Speak…(Read More)
Martha Frankel, host of Woodstock Booktalk Radio, runs one of my favorite book radio shows, and I was delighted to be on to talk about my “classically American novel, really beautiful, spot on,” as she described Shining Sea. We discussed the book’s original title, how Woodstock appears in the novel, why I chose to…(Read More)
Another radio interview I gave at the Miami Book Fair, with Lillian Cauldwell — president of PWRN, and a very insightful reader and radio host — turned out to be a radio AND video interview. Had I known, I would have at the very least have brushed my hair. But, she asked such interesting questions,…(Read More)
I was delighted to contribute a story on landscape design to the January 2017 issue of Architectural Digest, its annual AD 100 issue, about a beautiful hidden garden by Lac Léman in Switzerland, recently re-invented by one of the world’s best in the field, Wirtz International in Belgium. To read the article…(Read More)
In this radio interview, taped at the Miami Book Fair, I got to speak about Shining Sea with radio personality Neil Haley… and three of his colleagues. A round-table! To hear the whole interview, look here…(Read More)
Shining Sea was honored with a review in my hometown paper, the New York Times. True, the reviewer doesn’t describe what the book is about, but I’ll take the adjective! “Korkeakivi’s second novel, an inquiry into the chasm that opened half a century ago between the greatest generation and their disillusioned, Vietnam…(Read More)
