An Unexpected Guest is on “Paperback Row” of the Sunday New York Times Book Review! “Paperback books of particular interest” – To see the whole post, please look here…(Read More)

Just a few days before An Unexpected Guest comes out in Italy from publisher Garzanti, under the lovely title “Quando eravamo foglie nel vento” (or “When We Were Leaves in the Wind”). And, the advance word has been so warm and generous, Italian-style: “Ancora prima della pubblicazione, Quando eravamo foglie nel vento è stato incoronato…(Read More)

A big merci to Prête-Moi Paris blog for this lovely review: “The tale [Korkeakivi] weaves makes the pages turn, and her descriptions make you want to slow them down so as to savor each moment she describes in elegant detail. If you love Paris you will lose yourself in this novel.” If you…(Read More)

School may be well behind me, but e-mails and reviews from university English professors praising An Unexpected Guest still capture a special place of pride. “Anne Korkeakivi does a fantastic job of…making it very thrilling indeed.  This is a great first novel that bodes only better things to come.” To see the whole…(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)

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)